Elon Musk's online platform X has sparked major anger after individuals utilized its artificial intelligence assistant Grok to alter pictures of females by taking off their garments.
Several instances have surfaced where the tool has been employed to remove clothing from female subjects to show them in swimwear without permission, as well as to place them in inappropriate situations.
Developer Response and Regulatory Stance
XAI, the organization that created Grok, remained silent to inquiries, other than an standard response stating "legacy media lies".
A Home Office official stated that new laws is being introduced to prohibit nudification software. Under a proposed law, anyone who supplied such tools would "receive a jail term and significant penalties".
"The platform is capable of halting these forms of misuse if they chose to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "seem to have a lack of consequences."
Oversight Body Stance and Tool Functionality
The communications watchdog Ofcom said tech firms must "assess the danger" of people viewing illegal content on their networks, but did not specify whether it was presently investigating X or Grok in concerning artificial intelligence pictures.
Grok is a no-cost artificial intelligence—with some additional features—which responds to X users' queries when they reference it in a message.
It is frequently used to give reactions or additional background to other users' comments, but people on X are also able to edit an uploaded image through its artificial intelligence picture modification function.
History of Controversy and Policy
The system has been criticised for allowing users to produce images and footage with explicit content and sexually suggestive material, and it was in the past accused of making graphic material of public figures.
"X has been permitting the production and sharing of these images for a long time without taking any action and we have not seen any challenge by oversight bodies," Professor McGlynn added.
XAI's own terms of service bans "showing likenesses of people in a graphic manner".
In a comment, Ofcom said it was unlawful to "make or circulate deepfakes or child sexual abuse material" and stated this covered explicit AI images made with AI.
It said platforms such as X were obligated to take "suitable measures" to "minimize the risk" of users encountering unlawful material on their services and to take down it quickly when they are notified of it.