Elon Musk’s Grok AI under Ofcom investigation after undressing thousands of women

Ofcom has launched an investigation into Elon Musk‘s Grok after X‘s AI-powered chatbot generated sexualised images of women.

The media regulator is considering whether the social media network has broken the law.

It said today: ‘There have been deeply concerning reports of the Grok AI chatbot account on X being used to create and share undressed images of people, which may amount to intimate image abuse or pornography, and sexualised images of children that may amount to child sexual abuse material.’

Under the Online Safety Act, Ofcom has the power to effectively ban X in the UK or issue a fine of up to 10% of its worldwide revenue, or £18 million.

Elon Musk previously said the government ‘want any excuse for censorship’.

Metro has spoken with women who say users asked Grok to dress them in revealing garments, remove their clothes or pose them in suggestive ways.

Some users have prompted X’s built-in virtual assistant to strip cabinet ministers to a bikini, Metro revealed last week.

All X users were previously able to ask Grok to edit or create images on the platform by tagging the @grok account.

But the Grok account started limiting requests for phoney images to X subscribers who pay for certain premium features from Thursday.

Though users can still make requests by using the app’s ‘edit image’ button, the private Grok tab on X or the bot’s video-creator, Grok Imagine.

Ofcom announced last week that it had given X and xAI, the AI start-up behind Grok, until Friday to ‘explain themselves’.

The regulator is discussing whether there is a risk that British social media users may see illegal content and whether X is taking steps to prevent this.

Such illegal material includes ‘non-consensual intimate images’ and child sexual imagery, Ofcom said.

Social media platforms must proactively screen for objectionable material and judge whether it is illegal.

Ofcom’s data protection counterpart also told Metro that it was in talks with X amid privacy concerns from legal experts.

The Internet Media Watch said it has seen altered images of children on X.

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