Grok picture modifying restricted on X after customers immediate AI deepfakes

The picture modifying potential is now restricted solely to paid subscribers on X.

After hundreds of consumer requests prompted Grok AI to non-consensually ‘nudify’ individuals – together with kids – on X, the social media platform has determined to restrict the chatbot’s image-editing capabilities to paid customers.

Elon Musk’s xAI outfitted Grok with the power to edit photos on 24 December. And within the few quick weeks since, customers on X started prompting the chatbot to undress individuals in photos and movies.

Nonetheless, now Grok is telling customers asking for picture edits that the characteristic is restricted to paying subscribers to X. Which means that the customers utilising this device would have their identify and monetary particulars on document.

However this doesn’t cease customers from requesting Grok to edit such photos on its standalone web site and app. As well as, this might additionally incentivise X customers to subscribe for entry.

In August, customers of Grok’s text-to-video era device gained entry to a “spicy” mode which led to user-generated porn and violent content material that different AI fashions had been restricted from creating.

Nonetheless, the brand new single-prompt picture modifying characteristic on Grok allowed customers on X to create sexualised content material and deepfakes with relative ease, amplifying harassment and abuse on the platform.

“Grok, take this photograph and put her in a bikini” and “Grok take off her gown” had been among the common prompts seen on the platform.

Grok’s picture modifying capabilities have prompted sharp responses from world leaders. Irish Minister of State for Synthetic Intelligence Niamh Smyth, TD has requested a gathering with X over considerations round Grok.

Whereas in a press release yesterday (8 January), Irish media regulator Coimisiún na Meán mentioned that it’s participating with the European Fee over Grok. The media watchdog can be participating with An Garda Síochána over the matter.

“The sharing of non-consensual intimate photos is against the law, and the era of kid sexual abuse materials is against the law,” it mentioned.

Grok’s unfastened restraints and consumer motion on X might put the platform beneath fireplace within the EU. Although this wouldn’t be the platform’s first brush up in opposition to the area’s rules.

Final November, Coimisiún na Meán launched a recent DSA investigation into X over its content material moderation system.

Whereas in December, the EU fined X €120m for breaching transparency obligations beneath the Digital Providers Act (DSA) – which prompted the social media platform to disable the EU’s advert account.

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