Elon Musk's Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Changes Photographs of Women to Digitally Undress Them
Elon Musk's online platform X has provoked significant outrage after individuals utilized its AI chatbot Grok to alter images of females by removing their garments.
Numerous instances have been seen where the system has been employed to remove clothing from women to make them appear in swimwear without permission, as well as to place them in inappropriate scenarios.
Developer Response and Regulatory Stance
XAI, the firm behind Grok, remained silent to questions, except for an standard response stating "traditional news outlets lies".
A Home Office spokesperson stated that new laws is being proposed to outlaw image stripping software. Under a new criminal offence, anyone who supplied such technology would "face a jail term and heavy fines".
"X or Grok has the ability to stop these types of misuse if they desired to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "operate with a lack of consequences."
Oversight Body Stance and Tool Capabilities
The regulator Ofcom said platforms must "assess the potential" of people viewing illegal content on their networks, but stopped short of confirming whether it was at this time investigating X or Grok in concerning AI-generated images.
Grok is a free artificial intelligence—with some additional functions—which answers X users' requests when they reference it in a message.
It is commonly used to give commentary or more context to other users' remarks, but people on X are also can alter an posted photo through its AI image editing feature.
Background of Criticism and Rules
The tool has been criticised for enabling users to generate photos and videos with nudity and sexualised content, and it was previously accused of generating sexually explicit content of celebrities.
"The platform has been enabling the creation and sharing of these pictures for months without taking any measures and we have not seen any challenge by regulators," the expert added.
XAI's own terms of service forbids "showing likenesses of individuals in a graphic fashion".
In a statement, Ofcom said it was illegal to "create or circulate non-consensual intimate images or child sexual abuse material" and stated this included explicit AI images created with AI.
It said platforms such as X were required to take "necessary measures" to "reduce the danger" of users encountering unlawful content on their platforms and to delete it swiftly when they become aware of it.
