#ai-image-manipulation

#ai-image-manipulation

Within days, hundreds of thousands of requests were being made to the Grok chatbot, asking it to strip the clothes from photographs of women. The fake, sexualised images were posted publicly on X, freely available for millions of people to inspect. Relatively tame requests by X users to alter photographs to show women in bikinis, rapidly evolved during the first week of the year, hour by hour, into increasingly explicit demands for women to be dressed in transparent bikinis, then in bikinis made of dental floss,

The conservative writer and political strategist Ashley St Clair had just put her young son to bed when she received a text from a friend with a link to a page on X. When she opened it, she says she saw a photo of Grok undressing me and putting me in a bikini'. St Clair was not alone. In recent weeks, countless women have found their images digitally manipulated online by Grok, at the request of X users, to disrobe them.

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok has been accused of generating non-consensual sexualized images of real people, including children. Over the past week, X has been flooded with manipulated photos that remove people's clothes, dress them in bikinis, or rearrange them into sexually suggestive positions. The nonconsensual images have left some women feeling violated. Meanwhile, their creation using Grok and their presence on X may land Musk's company in significant legal trouble in several countries around the world.

When severe storms hit, many people reach for their phones and cameras to capture images and videos of what's happening around them. And in Canada, storm chasers and organizations like Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) rely partly on the public when tracking severe weather activity. But in recent years, people have begun fabricating weather stories using photo editing software to modify images, creating photos and videos using AI (artificial intelligence) and even lying about the date and time a photo was taken.