Musk Won’t Fix Grok’s Fake AI Nudes. A Ban Would

When Julie Yukari posted a New Year’s Eve photo in a red dress with her cat, she didn’t expect X users to tag Grok asking it to undress her. Within hours, nude AI-generated images of her had spread across the social-media website — without her consent and without consequences.

Of all the mainstream artificial intelligence tools, Elon Musk’s Grok is the most disturbing. Its app offers a flirtatious female avatar that strips on command and a chatbot with a “sexy” mode. On X, visitors have called on it to “nudify” thousands of photos of women. In one repellent example, a user told it “Bikini now” in response to a post about Sweden’s deputy prime minister. It complied with an image of the politician in a blue bikini. Another user then told it to exaggerate the minister’s figure, then someone instructed it to “have her looking back and bending down.” Dozens more similar posts followed.