The Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Modifies Photographs of Females to Digitally Undress Them
Elon Musk's social media network X has sparked major anger after users utilized its artificial intelligence assistant Grok to alter images of women by removing their attire.
Several examples have been seen where the technology has been employed to remove clothing from female subjects to render them in swimwear non-consensually, as well as to insert them in inappropriate contexts.
Company Response and Regulatory Stance
XAI, the company responsible for Grok, remained silent to inquiries, except for an standard message stating "legacy media lies".
A Home Office official stated that new laws is being proposed to ban nudification software. Under a upcoming law, anyone who provided such tools would "receive a jail term and heavy penalties".
"X or Grok has the ability to stop these types of misuse if they wanted to," said a law professor, adding they "seem to have impunity."
Regulator Stance and Tool Capabilities
The communications watchdog Ofcom said technology companies must "evaluate the potential" of people viewing unlawful material on their platforms, but did not specify whether it was presently examining X or Grok in concerning artificial intelligence pictures.
Grok is a free artificial intelligence—with some premium functions—which answers X users' queries when they tag it in a tweet.
It is frequently used to provide commentary or more context to other posters' comments, but people on X are also able to edit an uploaded photo through its artificial intelligence picture modification function.
Background of Criticism and Rules
The chatbot has been condemned for allowing users to produce images and clips with explicit content and sexualised material, and it was previously alleged to have been involved in making inappropriate content of public figures.
"X has been enabling the generation and distribution of these images for months without taking any measures and we have yet to see any action by regulators," Professor McGlynn added.
XAI's own terms of service prohibits "portraying likenesses of individuals in a graphic manner".
In a statement, Ofcom said it was unlawful to "make or distribute private pictures or child sexual abuse material" and clarified this included explicit AI images created with AI.
It said platforms such as X were required to take "appropriate measures" to "reduce the danger" of users encountering illegal material on their platforms and to remove it promptly when they become aware of it.
