The online network X has sparked widespread anger after individuals employed its AI chatbot Grok to change photos of women by stripping their attire.
Numerous examples have surfaced where the system has been used to digitally undress female subjects to render them in swimwear without permission, as well as to place them in inappropriate contexts.
Company Reaction and Regulatory Stance
XAI, the organization responsible for Grok, did not respond to inquiries, aside from an standard message stating "traditional news outlets lies".
A government spokesperson stated that new laws is being proposed to ban nudification technology. Under a upcoming criminal offence, anyone who supplied such technology would "receive a prison sentence and heavy penalties".
"The platform has the ability to stop these types of misuse if they chose to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "operate with a lack of consequences."
Oversight Body Position and Tool Capabilities
The communications watchdog Ofcom said platforms must "evaluate the danger" of people seeing illegal content on their services, but stopped short of confirming whether it was presently looking into X or Grok in concerning AI-generated pictures.
Grok is a no-cost chatbot—with some premium features—which responds to X users' prompts when they mention it in a tweet.
It is often used to give reactions or further context to other posters' remarks, but people on X are also can edit an uploaded picture through its artificial intelligence picture modification feature.
Background of Criticism and Policy
The system has been condemned for permitting users to produce photos and videos with explicit content and sexually suggestive material, and it was previously accused of making inappropriate content of celebrities.
"X has been permitting the creation and sharing of these images for months without taking any measures and we have not seen any intervention by regulators," the expert added.
XAI's own acceptable use policy bans "portraying images of people in a graphic manner".
In a comment, Ofcom said it was against the law to "generate or share private pictures or child sexual abuse material" and confirmed this included explicit AI images made with AI.
It said services such as X were required to take "suitable actions" to "minimize the danger" of users encountering unlawful content on their platforms and to take down it quickly when they become aware of it.
