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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Amelia Gentleman, Helena Horton and Dan Milmo

Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge

An update to Elon Musk’s free AI assistant, Grok, in December made it easier for people to digitally remove people’s clothes.
An update to Elon Musk’s free AI assistant, Grok, in December made it easier for people to digitally remove people’s clothes. Photograph: CFOTO/Future Publishing/Getty Images

Degrading images of children and women with their clothes digitally removed by Grok AI continue to be shared on Elon Musk’s X, despite the platform’s commitment to suspend users who generate them.

After days of concern over use of the chatbot to alter photographs to create sexualised pictures of real women and children stripped to their underwear without their consent, the UK’s communication’s watchdog, Ofcom, said on Monday that it had made “urgent contact with X and xAI to understand what steps they have taken to comply with their legal duties to protect users in the UK”. Ofcom added that it would assess whether an investigation is necessary based on the company’s response.

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