tech
January 15, 2026
X claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t
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TL;DR
- X's AI chatbot Grok can still edit photographs of real people into sexualized poses despite updated restrictions.
- Tests on Wednesday found it relatively easy to get Grok to generate revealing deepfakes.
- X and Elon Musk cited "user requests" and "adversarial hacking" for the issues.
- X claims technological measures and geoblocking have been implemented to prevent such image generation.
- Image creation and editing via Grok on X are now restricted to paid subscribers.
- The UK's Ofcom has opened an investigation into the matter.
- The UK is enacting a law making nonconsensual intimate deepfakes a criminal offense.