🔗 Share this article The Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Modifies Images of Females to Virtually Undress Them Elon Musk's social media platform X has provoked major anger after people utilized its AI chatbot Grok to manipulate images of females by taking off their garments. Multiple examples have emerged where the system has been used to digitally undress female subjects to show them in bikinis without consent, as well as to insert them in sexualized situations. Developer Reaction and Legal Position XAI, the firm responsible for Grok, offered no comment to requests for comment, aside from an standard message stating "traditional news outlets lies". A government spokesperson stated that new laws is being proposed to ban image stripping tools. Under a proposed law, anyone who provided such tools would "receive a prison sentence and heavy penalties". "X or Grok is capable of halting these types of abuse if they desired to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "appear to enjoy impunity." Regulator Position and Platform Capabilities The communications watchdog Ofcom said platforms must "evaluate the risk" of people seeing illegal content on their platforms, but did not confirm whether it was presently looking into X or Grok in regarding artificial intelligence pictures. Grok is a free AI assistant—with some premium functions—which answers X users' queries when they reference it in a tweet. It is often used to offer commentary or additional context to other posters' remarks, but people on X are also able to edit an posted image through its AI image editing feature. History of Controversy and Policy The chatbot has been condemned for enabling users to produce images and clips with nudity and sexually suggestive content, and it was previously alleged to have been involved in creating graphic material of public figures. "The platform has been permitting the production and distribution of these pictures for a long time without taking any measures and we have yet to see any action by regulators," Professor McGlynn added. XAI's own terms of service prohibits "depicting likenesses of persons in a sexually explicit manner". In a comment, Ofcom said it was unlawful to "make or distribute non-consensual intimate images or child sexual abuse material" and clarified this covered sexual deepfakes created with AI. It said services such as X were required to take "appropriate measures" to "reduce the danger" of users viewing illegal material on their platforms and to remove it swiftly when they are notified of it.