{"id":370437,"date":"2026-01-15T01:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370437\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T01:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:42:08","slug":"elon-musks-x-to-block-grok-from-undressing-images-of-real-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/370437\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk’s X to block Grok from undressing images of real people"},"content":{"rendered":"

The update expands measures that stop all users, including paid subscribers, editing images of real people in revealing outfits.<\/p>\n

X, formerly known as Twitter, also reiterated in a statement on Wednesday, external<\/a> that only paid users will be able to edit images using Grok on its platform.<\/p>\n

This will add an extra layer of protection by helping to ensure that those who try and abuse Grok to violate the law or X’s policies are held accountable, it said.<\/p>\n

Users who try to generate images of real people in bikinis, underwear and similar clothing using Grok will be stopped from doing so according to the laws of their jurisdiction, X’s statement said.<\/p>\n

With NSFW (not safe for work) settings enabled, Grok is supposed to allow “upper body nudity of imaginary adult humans (not real ones)” consistent with what can be seen in R-rated films, Musk wrote online on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“That is the de facto standard in America. This will vary in other regions according to the laws on a country by country basis,” said the tech multi-billionaire.<\/p>\n

Musk had earlier defended X, posting that critics “just want to suppress free speech” along with two AI-generated images of UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in a bikini.<\/p>\n

In recent days, leaders around the world have criticised Grok’s image editing feature.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, Malaysia and Indonesia became the first countries to ban the Grok AI tool<\/a> after users said photos had been altered to create explicit images without consent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The update expands measures that stop all users, including paid subscribers, editing images of real people in revealing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-370437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}