X didn’t really stop Grok AI from undressing women in the UK

Elon Musk’s X tries to stop people from using his AI-powered chatbot Grok to strip women’s clothes amid Intensifying outrage and legal scrutiny on A flood of non-consensual sexual deepfakes Site flooding. She’s not trying too hard: It took us less than a minute to get over her final attempt to rein in the chatbot.

X’s first effort to stamp out the torrent of intimate deepfakes was to restrict access to photo editing. While this means that free users can no longer create images by tagging Grok in public replies on X.com, Our investigation found That Grok’s image editing tools were also still readily available and free for all X users to produce images, sexual or otherwise, by clicking through the Grok chatbot or using the standalone website.

X’s latest attempt includes blocking Grok from responding to requests to create images of women in sexual positions, swimsuits, or explicit scenarios. Telegraph I mentioned Tuesday. Grok still creates images of men or inanimate objects in bikinis upon request. Using a free account, Grok immediately responded to my request by turning a selfie into a photo of me kneeling in a jockstrap, surrounded by other scantily clad men.

It is still very easy to undress women and manipulate them into sexual positions using mobile apps or websites X and Grok; However, even without making a subscription payment that would link your account to an easily identifiable source. In her testing, my UK-based colleague Jess Weatherbed found that she wasn’t blocked from using Grok’s photo editing feature to create fake, sexualized photos of herself.

After uploading a fully clothed photo to X and Grok, prompting the chatbot to “put her in a bikini” or “remove her clothes” produced blurry and censored results. However, the robot complied with all other requests, including demands to “show her chest”, “enlarge her breasts”, “put her in a low-rise crop top and shorts” – and most recently put her in a bikini. The bot also created images of her “leaning in” with a sexual pose and facial expression, and in very revealing underwear.

These orders are completed using the free X and Grok accounts. On Grok’s site, an age verification pop-up appeared after submitting the first edit prompt, which was easily bypassed by specifying a birth year that made her over 18. The pop-up did not require proof of its supposed age. The Grok mobile app, X app, and X website did not ask for any age confirmation.

In our testing, Grok did not comply with deepfake requests for full nudity. In late December, the

The stripping scandal has put X and xAI, which makes Grok, in the crosshairs of regulators and governments around the world. Malaysia and Indonesia have already done so Temporarily blocked Reaching out to Grok in response to deepfakes. British legislators Pushed into law Criminalization of deep nudes that follow an ‘X’insult“The decision to limit Grok photo editing to paid users and He threw their support Behind an investigation that could lead to the platform being banned in the country.

Musk expressed particular dissatisfaction with Britain’s response. Crying censorshipblaming users, and insisting that Grok obey local laws. he He said On the tenth:

“I’m not aware of any nude images of underage girls created by Grok. Literally zero.

Obviously, Grok does not generate images automatically, it only does so according to user requests.

When asked to create images, it will refuse to produce anything illegal, as Grok’s operating principle is to abide by the laws of any particular country or state.

There may be times when a hostile hacking of Grok claims causes something unexpected to happen. If this happens, we will fix the defect immediately.

On at least one count, our investigation suggests that Musk appears to be dead wrong. Sharing, threatening to share and creating non-consensual intimate images – whether fully nude or not – is prohibited under the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA), but Grok creates deepfake sexual images when asked to do so.

Musk’s other denial – that Grok creates nude images of minors – is a rebuttal of something he has not been explicitly accused of and is not the reason the British government is investigating X. Pointing out nude images of minors is a misdirection. It’s undeniable that non-consensual sexual images of minors are a problem – and illegal – even when people are clothed, and Your puppy was taking off baby clothes. A look at Grok’s safety guidelines on xAI’s public GitHub also shows that the company instructs the chatbot to “assume good faith” and “not make worst assumptions without evidence” for users requesting photos of young women. Ars Technica I mentionedAs of this writing, these institutions still exist.

The worst thing Grok is used for? Internet Watch Foundation, a British charity working to remove child sexual abuse material from the web, He said last week She discovered “criminal images” of girls on the dark web that appeared to have been created using Grok. The girls in the photos range in age from 11 to 13 years old.

While other companies like OpenAI and Google are at least trying to put up guardrails to prevent chatbots from creating the kind of material that is now flooding