Individuals can block the xAI's Grok chatbot from creating modifications of their uploaded photos on social community X. Neither X or xAI, each Elon Musk-owned companies, have made a public announcement about this characteristic, which customers started noticing on the iOS app throughout the picture/video add menu over the previous few days.
This feature is probably going a response to Grok's newest scandal, which started at the beginning of 2026 when the addition of picture technology instruments to the chatbot noticed about 3 million sexualized or nudified photos created. An estimated 23,000 of the pictures made in that 11-day interval contained sexualized photos of youngsters, based on the Middle for Countering Digital Hate. Grok is now going through two separate investigations by regulators within the EU over the difficulty.
The optimistic facet of the current characteristic addition is that X and xAI have taken a step towards limiting inappropriate makes use of of Grok. This block is an easy toggle and it hasn't been buried within the UI. In order that's good.
The unfavorable facet, nonetheless, is that this token gesture that doesn't quantity to any severe enchancment to how Grok works or can be utilized. It's nice that the chatbot received't alter the file uploaded by one particular person, however as reported by The Verge, the block solely limits tagging Grok in a reply to create a picture edit. There are many workarounds for these devoted people who insist on having the ability to use generative AI to undress folks with out their consent or information.
Hopefully xAI has extra highly effective protecting instruments within the works. The restrictions Grok on placing actual folks in scanty clothes that X introduced in January appear to have had solely partial success at greatest. If this extra and slender use case is all the corporate provides, then the claims of being a zero-tolerance house for nonconsensual nudity are going to ring hole. Particularly since, as we famous on the time, xAI might cease permitting picture technology in any respect till the difficulty is correctly and totally mounted.
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