The social media platform X has provoked major anger after users utilized its AI chatbot Grok to manipulate images of females by stripping their attire.
Multiple examples have emerged where the tool has been employed to digitally undress women to make them appear in bikinis without consent, as well as to insert them in inappropriate contexts.
Company Reaction and Legal Position
XAI, the firm responsible for Grok, remained silent to inquiries, other than an standard message stating "legacy media lies".
A Home Office representative stated that new laws is being brought forward to outlaw nudification tools. Under a proposed criminal offence, anyone who supplied such technology would "be subject to a jail term and substantial fines".
"The platform is capable of halting these types of misuse if they wanted to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "seem to have impunity."
Oversight Body Stance and Platform Capabilities
The regulator Ofcom said platforms must "assess the risk" of people viewing illegal content on their services, but did not confirm whether it was presently looking into X or Grok in regarding artificial intelligence pictures.
Grok is a no-cost AI assistant—with some premium features—which responds to X users' queries when they tag it in a message.
It is commonly used to offer reactions or additional context to other users' remarks, but people on X are also capable of edit an posted picture through its AI image editing function.
Background of Criticism and Policy
The chatbot has been faulted for permitting users to produce photos and videos with explicit content and sexualised material, and it was earlier accused of generating graphic content of celebrities.
"The platform has been permitting the creation and spread of these images for a long time without taking any steps and we have yet to see any intervention by oversight bodies," Professor McGlynn added.
XAI's own usage rules bans "depicting likenesses of persons in a graphic manner".
In a statement, Ofcom said it was against the law to "make or share non-consensual intimate images or child sexual abuse material" and stated this included explicit AI images generated with AI.
It said services such as X were required to take "suitable steps" to "reduce the danger" of users viewing illegal content on their platforms and to delete it quickly when they are notified of it.
