The online platform X has provoked major anger after individuals utilized its AI chatbot Grok to alter pictures of females by taking off their attire.
Multiple cases have been seen where the technology has been employed to digitally undress women to render them in swimwear without consent, as well as to insert them in sexualized situations.
Company Reaction and Regulatory Position
XAI, the firm responsible for Grok, remained silent to inquiries, other than an standard message stating "legacy media lies".
A Home Office representative stated that legislation is being proposed to outlaw nudification tools. Under a new law, anyone who provided such technology would "be subject to a prison sentence and substantial fines".
"The platform could prevent these types of abuse if they chose to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "appear to enjoy a lack of consequences."
Oversight Body Position and Tool Capabilities
The communications watchdog Ofcom said tech firms must "consider the risk" of people viewing unlawful material on their platforms, but did not specify whether it was at this time looking into X or Grok in concerning artificial intelligence images.
Grok is a no-cost chatbot—with some additional functions—which reacts to X users' requests when they reference it in a message.
It is often used to offer commentary or further context to other posters' remarks, but people on X are also able to modify an posted image through its artificial intelligence picture modification tool.
Background of Controversy and Policy
The system has been condemned for enabling users to generate pictures and videos with nudity and sexually suggestive material, and it was earlier accused of creating graphic material of celebrities.
"The platform has been enabling the production and distribution of these pictures for a long time without taking any action and we have yet to see any action by regulators," Professor McGlynn added.
XAI's own terms of service forbids "portraying likenesses of persons in a graphic way".
In a comment, Ofcom said it was against the law to "create or distribute non-consensual intimate images or child sexual abuse material" and clarified this covered explicit AI images created with AI.
It said platforms such as X were required to take "appropriate steps" to "lessen the danger" of users encountering unlawful material on their services and to take down it quickly when they are notified of it.
