The European Union and the United Kingdom are not ready to let Elon Musk’s Grok off the hook for creating non-consensual nude deepfakes.
Social media platform X announced late Wednesday it would stop people from “editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis” following a proliferation of sexualized images created by the Grok artificial intelligence bot that is integrated into X.
These changes apply only to publicly available tweets targeted to the Grok chatbot and not when using the Grok assistant built into X, which is separate from the publicly available platform feed.
The move by X — which included a fresh promise of geoblocking — came in response to mounting pressure and at least two app bans in Malaysia and Indonesia, as well as a formal probe in the U.K.
Yet POLITICO was able to verify that users in Brussels, Paris and London were still able to generate images of people in bikinis on Thursday morning using the integrated AI assistant Grok feature on X, suggesting the move may not meet regulator demands.