🔗 Share this article The Grok AI Changes Images of Women to Virtually Remove Their Clothes Elon Musk's social media network X has caused significant outrage after individuals used its artificial intelligence assistant Grok to change photos of females by taking off their clothing. Multiple examples have been seen where the system has been used to digitally undress women to show them in swimwear without permission, as well as to insert them in sexualized scenarios. Developer Response and Legal Position XAI, the organization that created Grok, did not respond to questions, except for an standard response stating "legacy media lies". A Home Office official stated that new laws is being proposed to ban image stripping technology. Under a upcoming law, anyone who supplied such technology would "receive a jail term and significant penalties". "The platform could prevent these types of misuse if they chose to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "operate with impunity." Oversight Body Position and Tool Capabilities The communications watchdog Ofcom said technology companies must "assess the risk" of people seeing unlawful material on their platforms, but did not confirm whether it was currently looking into X or Grok in relation to artificial intelligence images. Grok is a free AI assistant—with some premium functions—which reacts to X users' queries when they reference it in a tweet. It is often used to give reactions or additional context to other users' comments, but people on X are also can edit an uploaded picture through its AI image editing tool. Background of Controversy and Rules The system has been condemned for enabling users to create pictures and clips with nudity and sexually suggestive content, and it was previously accused of making graphic content of celebrities. "X has been enabling the generation and spread of these images for months without taking any measures and we have not seen any action by regulators," Professor McGlynn added. XAI's own usage rules bans "depicting images of people in a graphic manner". In a statement, Ofcom said it was against the law to "generate or circulate non-consensual intimate images or child sexual abuse material" and clarified this applied to sexual deepfakes generated with AI. It said services such as X were required to take "suitable measures" to "minimize the danger" of users coming across illegal material on their platforms and to delete it quickly when they learn of it.