The launch of an AI picture enhancing function on xAI’s Grok has prompted chaos on X after it was used to generate a flood of nonconsensual sexualized deepfakes. As Hayden Discipline wrote, “screenshots present Grok complying with requests to place actual ladies in lingerie and make them unfold their legs, and to place young children in bikinis.”
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer referred to as the deepfakes “disgusting,” saying, “X want[s] to get their act collectively and get this materials down. And we are going to take motion on this as a result of it’s merely not tolerable.” X has barely restricted the function by requiring a paid subscription to generate photographs by tagging Grok on X, however the AI picture editor stays freely obtainable in any other case.
