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Ofcom has made “urgent contact” with Elon Musk’s company xAI following reports its AI tool Grok can be used to make “sexualised images of children” and undress women.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the regulator said it was also investigating concerns Grok has been producing “undressed images” of people.<\/p>\n

The BBC has seen several examples<\/a> on the social media platform X of people asking the chatbot to alter real images to make women appear in bikinis without their consent, as well as putting them in sexual situations.<\/p>\n

X has not responded to a request for comment. On Sunday, it issued a warning to users<\/a> not to use Grok to generate illegal content including child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Elon Musk also posted to say<\/a> anyone who asks the AI to generate illegal content would “suffer the same consequences” as if they uploaded it themselves.<\/p>\n

XAI’s own acceptable use policy prohibits “depicting likenesses of persons in a pornographic manner”.<\/p>\n

But people have been using Grok to digitally undress people without their consent and without notifying them.<\/p>\n

It is a free virtual assistant – with some paid for premium features – which responds to X users’ prompts when they tag it in a post.<\/p>\n

Samantha Smith, a journalist who discovered users had used the AI to create pictures of her in a bikini, told the BBC’s PM programme on Friday it had left her feeling “dehumanised and reduced into a sexual stereotype”.<\/p>\n

“While it wasn’t me that was in states of undress, it looked like me and it felt like me and it felt as violating as if someone had actually posted a nude or a bikini picture of me,” she said.<\/p>\n

Under the Online Safety Act, Ofcom says it is illegal to create or share intimate or sexually explicit images – including “deepfakes” created with AI – of a person without their consent.<\/p>\n

Tech firms are also expected to take “appropriate steps” to reduce the risks of UK users encountering such content, and take it down “quickly” when made aware of it.<\/p>\n

A Home Office spokesperson said it was legislating to ban nudification tools, and under a new criminal offence, anyone who supplied such tech would “face a prison sentence and substantial fines”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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