Grok has come under fire from lawmakers and regulators worldwide after it emerged it had been used to virtually undress images of women and children, and show them in compromising sexualised positions. The widespread sexual abuse consists of X users asking Grok to manipulate pictures of fully clothed women to put them in bikinis, on their knees, and cover them in what looks like semen.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt horrified, I felt violated, especially seeing my toddler\u2019s backpack in the back of it,\u201d St Clair said of an image in which she has been put into a bikini, turned around and bent over.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s another tool of harassment. Consent is the whole issue. People are saying, well, it\u2019s just a bikini, it\u2019s not explicit. But it is a sexual offence to non-consensually undress a child.\u201d<\/p>\n
Acolytes of Musk had disliked her since she went public about his desire to build a \u201clegion\u201d of children, she said. Musk is the father of 13 other children<\/a>, with three other women.<\/p>\n She said: \u201cIt\u2019s funny, considering the most direct line I have and they don\u2019t do anything. I have complained to X and they have not even removed a picture of me from when I was a child, which was undressed by Grok.\u201d<\/p>\n The abuse started over the weekend, and she said that since it began she had been reporting it to X and Grok, to no avail. \u201cThe response time is getting longer as well,\u201d she added. \u201cWhen this first started, Grok was removing some of them.\u201d<\/p>\n The manipulated image of her as a 14-year-old had been up for 12 hours by Monday afternoon. It and several other images highlighted by St Clair were finally removed after the Guardian sought comment from X.<\/p>\n She said: \u201cGrok said it would not produce these images any more but they continued to get worse. People took pictures of me as a child and undressed me. There\u2019s one where they undressed me and bent me over and in the background is my child\u2019s backpack that he\u2019s wearing right now. That really upsets me.\u201d<\/p>\n St Clair said the abuse became worse when she publicly complained about her images being manipulated.<\/p>\n Since speaking out, other abuse victims have been in contact. She has been sent other disturbing sexual images the AI tool has made, including some of children. \u201cSince I posted this I have been sent a six-year-old covered in what\u2019s supposed to be semen,\u201d said St Clair. \u201cShe was in a full dress. They said to put her in a blue bikini and cover her in what looks like semen.\u201d<\/p>\n The mainstreaming of this abuse had been made possible by Grok, she said, adding: \u201cI am also seeing images where they add bruises to women, beat them up, tie them up, mutilated. These sickos used to have to go to the dark depths of the internet and now it is on a mainstream social media app.\u201d<\/p>\n St Clair believes this is being done to silence women and that the problem will get worse. This was because the AI was being \u201ctrained\u201d on the prompts it was given by sexually abusive men, while women were being frightened off the platform by the abuse, she said.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you are a woman you can\u2019t post a picture and you can\u2019t speak or you risk this abuse,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s dangerous and I believe this is by design. You are supposed to feed AI humanity and thoughts and when you are doing things that particularly impact women and they don\u2019t want to participate in it because they are being targeted, it means the AI is inherently going to be biased.\u201d<\/p>\n She referred to it as a \u201ccivil rights issue\u201d because \u201cwomen do not have the ability to participate in and train the models the same as men when they are being targeted. The other LLMs are being trained on the internet too and it\u2019s poisoning the well.\u201d<\/p>\n Musk and his team could have stopped this widespread abuse of women in minutes, she said. \u201cThese people believe they are above the law, because they are. They don\u2019t think they are going to get in trouble, they think they have no consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n She added: \u201cThey are trying to expel women from the conversation. If you speak out, if you post a picture of yourself online, you are fair game for these people. The best way to shut a woman up is to abuse her.\u201d<\/p>\n St Clair said she was considering legal action, and believed it could be classed as revenge porn under the new Take It Down Act in the US. The UK is in the process of banning the digital undressing of women, but the relevant law is yet to reach the statute book.<\/p>\n An X spokesperson said: \u201cWe take action against illegal content on X, including child sexual abuse material (CSAM), by removing it, permanently suspending accounts, and working with local governments and law enforcement as necessary. 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