🔗 Share this article Elon Musk's Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Alters Photographs of Women to Virtually Strip Them The online platform X has caused significant anger after people used its AI chatbot Grok to change images of females by taking off their garments. Several examples have surfaced where the tool has been employed to remove clothing from women to show them in swimwear non-consensually, as well as to put them in inappropriate scenarios. Developer Reaction and Legal Stance XAI, the organization behind Grok, did not respond to questions, aside from an auto-reply response stating "legacy media lies". A government representative stated that legislation is being proposed to prohibit nudification software. Under a upcoming criminal offence, anyone who supplied such tools would "be subject to a jail term and significant penalties". "The platform has the ability to stop these types of misuse if they wanted to," said a law professor, adding they "appear to enjoy a lack of consequences." Regulator Stance and Platform Functionality The communications watchdog Ofcom said platforms must "assess the risk" of people viewing unlawful material on their platforms, but did not confirm whether it was at this time investigating X or Grok in concerning artificial intelligence images. Grok is a free AI assistant—with some premium functions—which responds to X users' requests when they reference it in a tweet. It is often used to provide commentary or more context to other users' remarks, but people on X are also capable of edit an uploaded picture through its artificial intelligence picture modification tool. History of Controversy and Policy The tool has been faulted for allowing users to create photos and videos with nudity and sexualised material, and it was earlier accused of generating graphic content of celebrities. "X has been permitting the production and distribution of these pictures for a long time without taking any measures and we have not seen any challenge by oversight bodies," the expert added. XAI's own usage rules bans "depicting images of individuals in a pornographic way". In a statement, Ofcom said it was unlawful to "create or circulate deepfakes or child sexual abuse material" and stated this covered sexual deepfakes generated with AI. It said networks such as X were obligated to take "appropriate measures" to "lessen the risk" of users coming across unlawful content on their services and to delete it swiftly when they are notified of it.