Grok, the built-in chatbot of Elon Musk’s social media platform X, has come under fire for the thousands of sexualised images of women and minors it generates hourly at the request of X users.

This is after social media and deepfake researcher Genevieve Oh uncovered that users are prompting Grok to alter images of unsuspecting people, including minors, to be sexualised or undressed.

According to the LA Times, X is the top site where people are being undressed by AI without consent, as uncovered by the research.

Since late December, X users have increasingly prompted Grok to alter pictures people post of themselves.

During a 24-hour analysis of images the @Grok account posted to X, the chatbot generated about 6,700 every hour that were identified as sexually suggestive or nudifying, found Oh.

This was the response by X and Musk:

The AI-generated images highlight the dangers of AI and social media – especially in combination – without sufficient guardrails to protect some of society’s most vulnerable, according to CNN. 

The images could violate domestic and international laws and place many people, including children, in harm’s way.

UK government calls for X to deal with ‘appalling’ Grok AI deepfakes

The BBC reports that the UK’s Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has called on X to urgently deal with Grok being used to create non-consensual sexualised images of women and girls.

Kendall said the situation was “absolutely appalling” and that “we cannot and will not allow the proliferation of these degrading images.”

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