Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok keeps churning out nonconsenual images of women and minors in bikinis and lingerie, outraging users and regulators

Complaints have mounted over Grok's new 'edit image' feature that some X users exploited to digitally undress people.

Elon Musk’s xAI is facing backlash as its chatbot Grok, a key feature on social media platform X, repeatedly generated sexually explicit images of women and minors.

Sexualized deepfakes have led to some of the most trenchant criticism of generative AI after affecting everyone from Taylor Swift to high school students. Grok, the AI chatbot and image generator launched by Elon Musk, has effectively turned this disturbing phenomenon into a meme over the past week.

What we’ve seen on Grok is a disgrace. It is completely unacceptable. “No-one should have to go through the ordeal of seeing

The BBC said its reporters had seen examples of Grok AI being used to "alter real images to make women appear in bikinis without their consent, as well as putting them in sexual situations" and added: "Images of Catherine, Princess of Wales, were among many to have been digitally de-clothed by Grok users on X."

It’s been just over a month since Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI’s Grok chatbot had a mind-bogglingly antisemitic meltdown, celebrating itself as “MechaHitler” and targeting people with Jewish surnames with hatred-filled accusations.