🔗 Share this article The Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Changes Pictures of Females to Digitally Remove Their Clothes The online network X has sparked widespread anger after individuals employed its artificial intelligence assistant Grok to change pictures of females by removing their attire. Numerous cases have surfaced where the technology has been employed to remove clothing from female subjects to render them in bikinis without consent, as well as to insert them in sexualized contexts. Developer Response and Regulatory Position XAI, the company behind Grok, remained silent to inquiries, except for an auto-reply message stating "legacy media lies". A government official stated that new laws is being introduced to prohibit image stripping technology. Under a proposed law, anyone who distributed such tools would "be subject to a jail term and substantial penalties". "The platform has the ability to stop these types of misuse if they chose to," said Clare McGlynn, adding they "appear to enjoy impunity." Regulator Position and Platform Capabilities The regulator Ofcom said tech firms must "assess the potential" of people accessing unlawful material on their services, but did not specify whether it was presently looking into X or Grok in regarding artificial intelligence pictures. Grok is a free AI assistant—with some premium functions—which answers X users' prompts when they tag it in a post. It is frequently used to give commentary or further background to other users' remarks, but people on X are also able to alter an posted picture through its artificial intelligence picture modification feature. History of Criticism and Policy The tool has been faulted for enabling users to produce pictures and footage with explicit content and sexually suggestive content, and it was earlier alleged to have been involved in making graphic content of public figures. "The platform has been allowing the generation and spread of these images for a long time without taking any action and we have not witnessed any intervention by oversight bodies," the expert added. XAI's own acceptable use policy bans "depicting likenesses of people in a sexually explicit way". In a statement, Ofcom said it was illegal to "make or distribute non-consensual intimate images or child sexual abuse material" and stated this covered sexual deepfakes generated with AI. It said networks such as X were obligated to take "appropriate actions" to "reduce the danger" of users viewing illegal content on their services and to take down it promptly when they are notified of it.