馃敆 Share this article Elon Musk's Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Alters Images of Females to Digitally Strip Them Elon Musk's social media network X has sparked significant outrage after individuals employed its artificial intelligence assistant Grok to change images of women by taking off their clothing. Numerous examples have emerged where the system has been employed to remove clothing from women to show them in bikinis without permission, as well as to put them in sexually explicit situations. Company Reaction and Legal Position XAI, the firm behind Grok, offered no comment to questions, aside from an automatically-generated message stating "legacy media lies". A government official stated that legislation is being brought forward to outlaw nudification software. Under a new criminal offence, anyone who distributed such technology would "face a prison sentence and significant fines". "The platform is capable of halting these forms of abuse if they wanted to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "seem to have a lack of consequences." Regulator Position and Platform Functionality The regulator Ofcom said technology companies must "assess the risk" of people seeing illegal content on their services, but did not confirm whether it was at this time looking into X or Grok in regarding AI-generated images. Grok is a free artificial intelligence鈥攚ith some paid-for features鈥攚hich answers X users' requests when they reference it in a post. It is frequently used to give reactions or more context to other users' remarks, but people on X are also able to edit an uploaded picture through its artificial intelligence picture modification function. History of Criticism and Policy The system has been condemned for enabling users to create pictures and footage with explicit content and sexually suggestive material, and it was in the past alleged to have been involved in generating graphic material of celebrities. "The platform has been allowing the creation and distribution of these images for months without taking any measures and we have not seen any intervention by oversight bodies," Professor McGlynn added. XAI's own usage rules forbids "portraying images of people in a graphic manner". In a comment, Ofcom said it was unlawful to "generate or share deepfakes or illegal content" and confirmed this applied to explicit AI images made with AI. It said networks such as X were mandated to take "appropriate steps" to "minimize the risk" of users encountering illegal material on their platforms and to delete it promptly when they learn of it.