It has become a bottomless pit of people stripping women with AI

Since AI Grok has conquered what was once Twitter, the social network has become an infinite well of content generated by artificial intelligence. The problem is when that content is used to misinform or ends up harming other people. And today, Grok has become one of the main sources of sexualized images created without consent. Just like they count According to Bloomberg, the chatbot generated approximately 6,700 such images per hour during a 24-hour period in early January. The magnitude of the problem. On X there are many users who spend their time using Grok to modify photos that other people publish on the social network, generating versions in which they appear scantily clad or in sexualized situations. The middle appointment the findings of independent researcher Genevieve Oh, who identified that during the analysis carried out between January 5 and 6, Grok produced these images at a rate 84 times higher than the other five websites most active in this type of content. Oh estimated that 85% of the total images produced by Grok have been generated to sexualize. What’s special about Grok. Unlike other chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude either GeminiGrok doesn’t impose many limits on generating sexualized content from real people. Users can tag Grok’s account in replies to other people’s posts and request that he modify the original images. The most common requests include phrases such as “put her in a bikini,” “take off her clothes,” or “change her clothes to a see-through bikini.” The chatbot generates these images in a matter of seconds and publishes them automatically, linking them to the victim’s original publication. Victims without response. Maddie, a 23-year-old medical student cited per Bloomberg, woke up on New Year’s Day to discover that several strangers had altered a photo of her and her boyfriend using Grok. First they removed their partner from the image and put her in a bikini, then another user asked Grok to replace the bikini with dental floss. “My heart sank. I felt hopeless, helpless and just disgusted,” she said. When she and her friends reported the images through X’s moderation systems, they never received a response. In a different case, X determined that there were no “rule violations” in the reported content. According to the mediumthe images were still on the social network at the time of the publication of the report. Cases media. The problem has even reached public figures. And as they say from Guardianmultiple users asked Grok to alter an image of Sweden’s Deputy Prime Minister, Ebba Busch, to show her in a bikini. In addition to this, two British government ministers have also been victims of these manipulations. Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, a group specialized in investigative journalism, counted to the outlet how Grok responded to instructions such as “bikini now” or “put a bikini with the Confederate flag on her” over the photo of Busch in Parliament. Musk and X’s response. In the face of recent criticism, Elon Musk claimed in X that “anyone who uses Grok to create illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they uploaded illegal content.” However, this strategy of punishing users instead of preventing the chatbot from generating the content appears to have proven ineffective. Just like they count From Bloomberg, when someone requests to remove those images in the comments, Grok often apologizes and says he will take them down, but in many cases the images remain and the system continues to generate new ones. Legality. Carrie Goldberg, attorney specializing in online sexual crimes, explained to the outlet that the scale of deepfakes on X is “unprecedented” and noted that the platform “is not acting as a passive editor. It is actually generating and creating the image.” In this sense, the Law Take It Downapproved in the United States in 2025, holds platforms responsible for the production and distribution of this type of content. Brandie Nonnecke, of Americans for Responsible Innovation, counted Bloomberg that platforms have until May 2026 to establish the required removal process. Increasingly widespread use. Although the technology to create sexual deepfakes is not new, as there are dozens of websites and Telegram bots dedicated to undressing people, the fact that this capacity is hosted by a social network as well-known as X marks a turning point. And unlike specific image manipulation services, Grok is free, produces results in seconds and is available to millions of users on X. Sloan Thompson, of the EndTAB organization, pointed out Wired said that “when a company offers generative AI tools on their platform, it is their responsibility to minimize the risk of image-based abuse. The alarming thing here is that X has done the opposite. They have integrated AI-enabled image abuse directly into a mainstream platform, making sexual violence easier and scalable.” Cover image | Tamara Bellis and Antonio Vallejo In Xataka | We are entering a new era of robotics driven by AI and Disney is its perfect showcase

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