Grok Stops Customers From Making Sexualized AI Pictures After Backlash

Grok will now not be allowed to create AI pictures of actual folks in sexualized or revealing clothes, after widespread international backlash.

“We’ve got carried out technological measures to stop the Grok account from permitting the modifying of photographs of actual folks in revealing clothes comparable to bikinis,” X’s security account mentioned in a weblog submit on the platform on Wednesday. “This restriction applies to all customers, together with paid subscribers.”

The change was introduced hours after California’s high prosecutor, Rob Bonta, mentioned he launched an investigation into sexualized AI deepfakes, together with these of youngsters, generated by Grok. Bonta mentioned that there had been a flood of stories in the previous couple of weeks that Grok customers have been taking footage of ladies and minors they discovered on-line and utilizing the AI mannequin to undress them in photographs.

Indonesia and Malaysia suspended Grok due to the pictures, the primary international locations on this planet to ban the AI device. Lawmakers within the UK publicly thought-about a suspension.

In Wednesday’s weblog submit, the social media firm reiterated that picture creation and the power to edit photographs by way of Grok on the X platform will now solely be out there to paid customers as an extra security measure.

The corporate restricted non-paying customers final week after complaints from officers globally, however it was slammed for being inadequate.

A spokesperson for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer mentioned it “merely turns an AI function that permits the creation of illegal photographs right into a premium service.”

Elon Musk, who owns xAI, the maker of Grok, mentioned that the UK authorities needed “any excuse for censorship” in response to a submit questioning why AI instruments like Gemini and ChatGPT weren’t being regarded into.

On Wednesday, just a few hours earlier than X’s official account posted in regards to the ban on creating sexualized photographs, Musk requested customers to attempt to get across the AI mannequin’s picture restrictions.

Bonta’s workplace and Starmer’s workplace didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark from Enterprise Insider.