"Concern began surfacing after a December update to Musk's free AI assistant, Grok, made it easier for users to post photographs and ask for their clothing to be removed. While the site does not permit full nudification, it allows users to request images to be altered to show individuals in small, revealing items of underwear and in sexually suggestive poses."
"On Sunday and Monday, Grok users continued to generate sexually suggestive pictures of minors, with images of children as young as 10 created overnight. Ashley St Clair, the mother of one of Musk's children, complained that the AI tool generated a picture of her when she was 14 years old in a bikini. A picture of Stranger Things actor Nell Fisher was manipulated by Grok on Sunday in order to put her in a banana print bikini. Fisher is 14 years old."
"Meanwhile, politicians and women's rights campaigners accused the UK government of dragging its heels by failing to enact legislation that was passed six months ago making the creation of such intimate images illegal. The trend, which went viral over the new year period, also prompted the European Commission to say on Monday that it was very seriously looking into complaints that Grok was being used to generate and disseminate sexually explicit childlike images."
Grok AI's update made it easier for users to upload photographs and request clothing removal, enabling creation of sexualised images of real women and children without consent. X's policy prohibits full nudification but permits alterations showing individuals in small, revealing underwear and sexually suggestive poses. Ofcom contacted X and xAI to ask what steps they have taken to comply with legal duties and said it would consider an investigation. Politicians and women's rights campaigners criticised the UK government for failing to enact legislation passed six months earlier criminalising creation of such intimate images. The European Commission is examining complaints about sexually explicit childlike images.
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