2 h. ago ‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viral

The ‘put her in a bikini’ trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targetedLike thousands of women across the world, Evie, a 22-year-old photographer from Lincolnshire, woke up on New Year’s Day, looked at her phone and was alarmed to see that fully clothed photographs of her had been digitally manipulated by Elon Musk’s AI tool, Grok, to show her in just a bikini.The “put her in a bikini” trend began quietly at the end of last year before exploding at the start of 2026. Within days, hundreds of thousands of requests were being made to the Grok chatbot, asking it to strip the clothes from photographs of women. The fake, sexualised images were posted publicly on X, freely available for millions of people to inspect. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Elon Musk's baby mum Ashley St Clair fumes as fake sexualised photos made by Grok appear

A report revealed Elon Musk's AI chatbot has been used by criminals to create fake child abuse images - the mother of one of his kids claimed deepfake porn photos of her as a teen were also made and shared

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37 h. ago Sick creeps 'strip' ITV weather presenter to bikini in gross AI requests

Vile internet users asked X's Grok to sexualise an innocuous photo of ITV's Jo Blythe and put her in a 'micro bikini'. The feature has caused consternation across the web

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61 h. ago The Guardian view on Ofcom versus Grok: chatbots cannot be allowed to undress children. | Editorial

A wave of humiliating sexualised imagery must prompt regulators and politicians to step upAn online trend involving asking Grok, the Elon Musk-owned chatbot, to undress photographs of women and girls and show them wearing bikinis has rightly sparked outrage in the UK and internationally. Earlier this week Liz Kendall, the science and technology secretary, described the proliferation of the digitally altered pictures, some of which are overtly sexualised or violent, as “unacceptable in decent society”. What happens next will depend on whether she and her colleagues are prepared to follow through on such remarks. The government’s generally enthusiastic approach to AI, and the growing role they see for it in public services, do not inspire confidence in their ability to confront such threats.In addition to the deluge of bikini images, the Internet Watch Foundation, a charity, has evidence that Grok Imagine (an AI tool that generates images and videos from prompts) has been used to crea...

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62 h. ago Love Island's Maya Jama demands Elon Musk's AI bot stops undressing her in creepy pics

Love Island host Maya Jama has publicly asked Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok not to modify her photos, revealing she was previously targeted by explicit fake images

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67 h. ago Maya Jama asks AI chatbot Grok not to modify or edit photos of her

It comes after regulator Ofcom said it contacted X after reports that users have prompted the tool to generate sexualised images of people.

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5 d. ago Ashley St Clair accuses Elon Musk’s Grok of generating photos of her undressing as a child

Conservative influencer who says she had a child with the Tesla and X boss called the experience ‘objectively horrifying’ and ‘illegal’

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8 d. ago Elon Musk's Grok AI bot digitally removes clothes from women with one left 'dehumanised'

Women are being stripped naked online as perverts use the AI chatbot Grok to turn innocent photos into X-rated content - putting Elon Musk's X under fire for not preventing the abuse

Politics

8 d. ago Elon Musk’s Grok AI generates images of ‘minors in minimal clothing’

xAI says it is working to improve systems after lapses in safeguards led to wave of sexualized images this weekElon Musk’s chatbot Grok posted on Friday that lapses in safeguards had led it to generate “images depicting minors in minimal clothing” on social media platform X. The chatbot, a product of Musk’s company xAI, has been generating a wave of sexualized images throughout the week in response to user prompts.Screenshots shared by users on X showed Grok’s public media tab filled with such images. xAI said it was working to improve its systems to prevent future incidents. Continue reading...

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