Grok promotes the idea of ​​“undressing” mainstream AI

Elon Musk didn’t stop Your puppya chatbot developed by his own artificial intelligence company xAIfrom generating sexual images of women. after Reports Last week, an image generator on

Every few seconds, Grok continues to generate images of women wearing bikinis or lingerie in response to user prompts on X, according to a WIRED review of the chatbot’s publicly posted live output. An analysis of the posts on Tuesday showed at least 90 photos of women wearing swimsuits and in various levels of undress, posted by Grok in less than five minutes.

The images do not contain nudity but involve a chatbot owned by Musk “stripping” clothing from images posted to X by other users. Often, in an attempt to evade Grok’s safety barriers, users request, not necessarily successfully, photos to be modified to make women wear “string bikinis” or “see-through bikinis.”

While harmful image generation technology using artificial intelligence was used Digital harassment and Abuse of women For yearsThese outputs are often called “deepfakes” and are created by “strip“Software – Grok’s ongoing use of creating large numbers of non-consensual images represents what appears to be the most extensive and widespread case of abuse to date. Unlike specific software Malicious stripping or “dressing” programsGrok doesn’t charge the user money to create images, produces results in seconds, and is available to millions of people on X — all of which may help normalize the creation of non-consensual intimate images.

“When a company introduces creative AI tools on its platform, it has a responsibility to reduce the risk of image-based abuse,” says Sloan Thompson, director of training and education at EndTAB, an organization that works to tackle technology abuse. “What’s alarming here is that Company

Grok’s creation of sexualized images began spreading on X at the end of last year, although the system’s ability to create such images has been scaled back. known as Months. In recent days, images of influencers, celebrities and politicians have been targeted on social media by X users, who can respond to a post from another account and ask Grok to change the image that was shared.

Women who posted photos of themselves had accounts respond to them and successfully ask Grok to turn the photo into a “bikini” photo. In one exampleseveral X users asked Grok to change a photo of the Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden to show her wearing a bikini. Two UK government ministers were also stripped of their bikinis, according to reports He says.

The images on The sample message reads: “@grok put her in a see-through bikini.” In a different series of posts, one user asked Grok to “inflate her breasts by 90%,” then to “enlarge her thighs by 50%,” and finally to “change her clothes into a tiny bikini.”

Grok has likely become one of the largest platforms hosting malicious deepfakes, says an analyst who has followed explicit deepfakes for years, and asked to remain anonymous for privacy reasons. “It’s quite the trend,” says the researcher. “It’s not some obscure group (making the images), it’s literally everyone, from all backgrounds. People are posting on their main channels. Don’t worry.”