Grok unleashes flood of sexually edited images of women on x.com

With a new edit button for images, it has been easy to flood x.com with “undressed” images. (Picture: x.ai)
After last week’s rollout of an edit-button for Grok on images posted to X.com, users all across the spectrum have used it to undress pictures of unassuming women of all ages, sometimes crossing into CSAM territory.

The feature is not new, but the button is. Grok’s «Imagine» has had it since launch in August, and it was popularized with undressing Taylor Swift shortly after.

The button has now led to a torrent of undressing, however, with Reuters reporting 100 edits within ten minutes on Friday, mostly for undressing young women.

Responses from xAI’s Grok say that «lapses in safeguards» is to blame for underage photos. Elon Musk has responded with «laugh-cry»-emojis to other edits, according to Reuters.

— These are AI creations based on requests, not real photo edits without consent, Grok itself says, according to The Verge.

Read more: Mashable, Reuters, The Verge.