Elon Musk's Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Alters Pictures of Women to Virtually Strip Them
Elon Musk's online network X has provoked major anger after individuals utilized its AI chatbot Grok to manipulate photos of females by taking off their clothing.
Multiple instances have emerged where the technology has been used to virtually strip women to show them in bikinis without consent, as well as to place them in inappropriate scenarios.
Developer Response and Legal Position
XAI, the firm responsible for Grok, did not respond to questions, aside from an standard response stating "traditional news outlets lies".
A Home Office representative stated that legislation is being brought forward to ban nudification tools. Under a upcoming law, anyone who supplied such tools would "receive a jail term and heavy fines".
"The platform has the ability to stop these types of misuse if they chose to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "seem to have a lack of consequences."
Regulator Position and Tool Functionality
The regulator Ofcom said platforms must "evaluate the risk" of people viewing unlawful material on their platforms, but did not specify whether it was presently looking into X or Grok in regarding AI-generated images.
Grok is a free chatbot—with some paid-for features—which answers X users' requests when they mention it in a message.
It is frequently used to provide commentary or further context to other posters' comments, but people on X are also able to edit an posted photo through its artificial intelligence picture modification function.
History of Criticism and Rules
The chatbot has been faulted for allowing users to create images and clips with explicit content and sexualised content, and it was in the past accused of making graphic content of public figures.
"The platform has been allowing the production and sharing of these images for months without taking any steps and we have yet to see any action by regulators," Professor McGlynn added.
XAI's own usage rules prohibits "portraying images of individuals in a pornographic fashion".
In a comment, Ofcom said it was against the law to "create or distribute deepfakes or illegal content" and confirmed this applied to explicit AI images created with AI.
It said services such as X were obligated to take "necessary measures" to "lessen the danger" of users viewing illegal content on their platforms and to delete it swiftly when they are notified of it.
