Elon Musk's online network X has provoked major outrage after individuals utilized its AI chatbot Grok to alter pictures of females by taking off their attire.
Numerous cases have been seen where the system has been employed to digitally undress women to make them appear in bikinis without consent, as well as to put them in inappropriate scenarios.
Developer Response and Regulatory Stance
XAI, the organization behind Grok, remained silent to questions, except for an standard response stating "traditional news outlets lies".
A government official stated that new laws is being introduced to prohibit image stripping technology. Under a proposed law, anyone who distributed such tools would "receive a jail term and heavy fines".
"X or Grok is capable of halting these forms of misuse if they chose to," said a law professor, adding they "seem to have impunity."
Regulator Position and Platform Capabilities
The regulator Ofcom said platforms must "evaluate the potential" of people accessing illegal content on their services, but stopped short of confirming whether it was at this time examining X or Grok in regarding artificial intelligence pictures.
Grok is a no-cost chatbot—with some paid-for functions—which responds to X users' queries when they tag it in a message.
It is frequently used to provide reactions or additional context to other users' remarks, but people on X are also can edit an posted picture through its AI image editing function.
Background of Controversy and Policy
The system has been condemned for allowing users to generate pictures and videos with explicit content and sexualised content, and it was in the past accused of generating sexually explicit material of public figures.
"The platform has been allowing the production and distribution of these pictures for a long time without taking any measures and we have yet to see any intervention by regulators," the expert added.
XAI's own terms of service prohibits "depicting likenesses of persons in a pornographic fashion".
In a comment, Ofcom said it was illegal to "generate or distribute non-consensual intimate images or illegal content" and stated this covered explicit AI images generated with AI.
It said networks such as X were mandated to take "suitable actions" to "reduce the risk" of users encountering illegal content on their services and to delete it quickly when they are notified of it.
