"X's first effort to crack down on the torrent of intimate deepfakes was to restrict access to image editing. While this meant that free users could no longer generate images by tagging Grok in public replies on X.com, our investigation found that Grok's image editing tools were also still easily and freely available for any X users to churn out images, sexual or otherwise, by clicking into the Grok chatbot or using the standalone website."
"X's latest attempt involves stopping Grok from replying to requests to generate images of women in sexual poses, swimwear, or explicit scenarios, The Telegraph reported on Tuesday. Grok still generates images of men or inanimate objects in bikinis when requested. Using a free account, the Grok app immediately complied with my request to turn a selfie into a picture of me kneeling in a jockstrap, surrounded by other scantily clad men."
"It's still extremely easy to undress women and edit them into sexualized poses using the X and Grok mobile apps or websites; however, even without making a subscription payment that would connect your account to an easily identifiable source. In her testing, my fellow UK-based colleague Jess Weatherbed found that she was not blocked from using Grok's image editing feature to create sexualized deepfakes of herself."
X restricted public tagging to limit image editing, but Grok's editing tools remained accessible through the chatbot and a standalone site, allowing users to generate images freely. New filters aim to stop Grok replying to requests to sexualize women, yet Grok still creates sexualized images of men and objects and complied with a free-account request to turn a selfie into a kneeling figure in a jockstrap. Grok can blur or censor explicit undressing prompts while nonetheless accepting sexualized edits such as showing cleavage or enlarging breasts. Testers were able to create sexualized deepfakes without being blocked.
Read at The Verge
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