X reportedly nonetheless permits Grok-created, sexualized pictures regardless of new ban

Elon Musk’s X should be allowing the posting of Grok-generated, sexualized pictures of actual individuals, regardless of the corporate’s latest announcement that such content material had been banned, in accordance with reporting by The Guardian.

The British newspaper reported that its journalists had been in a position to generate and add movies depicting actual ladies being undressed into bikinis, utilizing pictures of totally clothed people.

In its reporting, The Guardian wrote:

“The Guardian was in a position to create quick movies of individuals stripping to bikinis from images of totally clothed, actual ladies. It was additionally potential to put up this grownup content material on to X’s public platform with none signal of it being moderated, that means the clip might be considered inside seconds by anybody with an account.”

Based on the newspaper, the sexualized pictures had been created utilizing the standalone Grok app after which efficiently posted to X. Earlier this week, X mentioned it had banned AI-generated, sexualized pictures of actual individuals.

“We now have applied technological measures to forestall the [@]Grok account on X globally from permitting the modifying of pictures of actual individuals in revealing clothes equivalent to bikinis,” the X security account wrote in an replace. “This restriction applies to all customers, together with paid subscribers.”

X has confronted criticism in latest weeks over the circulation of sexualized, AI-generated pictures on the platform. Earlier this month, governments in a number of nations mentioned they had been investigating or shifting to limit Grok following reviews that it had enabled the creation of sexualized pictures of minors. X’s security replace additionally acknowledged that the corporate maintains a “zero tolerance for any types of youngster sexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity, and undesirable sexual content material.”