The BBC has seen several examples of the free AI tool undressing women and putting them in sexual situations without their consent.
Ashley St Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, told BBC Newshour that Grok had generated sexualised photos of her as a child.
The conservative influencer said her image had been “stripped” to appear “basically nude, bent over”, despite her telling Grok that she did not consent to the sexualised images.
St Clair, who filed a lawsuit against Musk last year seeking sole custody of their child, accused the social media site of “not taking enough action” to tackle illegal content, including child sexual abuse imagery. “This could be stopped with a singular message to an engineer,” she said.
As of Friday morning, Grok was telling users asking it to alter images uploaded to X that “image generation and editing are currently limited to paying subscribers”, adding users “can subscribe to unlock these features”.