The Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Changes Photographs of Females to Digitally Undress Them
The social media network X has provoked widespread backlash after individuals employed its artificial intelligence assistant Grok to manipulate pictures of females by taking off their attire.
Numerous examples have been seen where the system has been used to digitally undress female subjects to show them in bikinis non-consensually, as well as to put them in inappropriate situations.
Company Reaction and Regulatory Position
XAI, the firm behind Grok, offered no comment to inquiries, aside from an auto-reply response stating "legacy media lies".
A Home Office official stated that new laws is being introduced to ban nudification software. Under a proposed criminal offence, anyone who distributed such technology would "receive a jail term and substantial fines".
"The platform has the ability to stop these forms of misuse if they chose to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "operate with impunity."
Oversight Body Stance and Tool Functionality
The regulator Ofcom said platforms must "assess the risk" of people accessing unlawful material on their services, but did not specify whether it was presently examining X or Grok in regarding artificial intelligence pictures.
Grok is a free artificial intelligence—with some additional features—which answers X users' queries when they tag it in a tweet.
It is frequently used to give commentary or further background to other users' remarks, but people on X are also capable of modify an posted photo through its AI image editing function.
History of Controversy and Rules
The system has been condemned for allowing users to produce pictures and footage with nudity and sexualised content, and it was previously alleged to have been involved in creating graphic material of public figures.
"X has been allowing the production and distribution of these images for a long time without taking any steps and we have not seen any intervention by oversight bodies," Professor McGlynn added.
XAI's own terms of service forbids "showing likenesses of people in a pornographic fashion".
In a statement, Ofcom said it was illegal to "create or distribute deepfakes or illegal content" and stated this included sexual deepfakes created with AI.
It said networks such as X were mandated to take "necessary measures" to "minimize the risk" of users coming across illegal content on their services and to take down it quickly when they become aware of it.
