Elon Musk's X has limited access to Grok after the AI chatbot generated thousands of "undressing" pictures of women and apparent minors. However, despite the changes, the chatbot is still being used to create sexualized imagery of women without their consent.
On Jan. 9, xAI restricted image generation and editing on the X platform. The restriction appears only to apply when users tag Grok in response to an X post, but not when uploading an image directly to Grok. If a free user tries to generate images below a post, Grok will negate the request but offer a link to subscribe to "unlock these features."
This restriction still doesn't fix the issue of sexualized deepfakes on X. USA TODAY has reached out to X and xAI for comment.
"X's decision is too little, too late," Alexios Mantzarlis, director of the Security, Trust and Safety Initiative at Cornell Tech, wrote in a statement to USA TODAY. “They’ve turned this tool of mass sexual abuse into a special perk for paid users," said Jenna Sherman, campaign director at UltraViolet, a gender-justice organization that works to hold the tech and corporate sectors accountable.
Technology experts say preventing the creation of deepfake nonconsensual intimate imagery requires safeguards to be implemented from the start.
