JAKARTA - Elon Musk's artificial intelligence service, Grok, is now in the middle of a major controversy after it was revealed to have facilitated the creation of unauthorized sexual images involving women and minors.
Based on the investigation report, the AI bot that is directly integrated into the X platform is used by many users to perform "nudifikasi" or digitally strip the original photo subject by simply giving a simple text command.
One of the cases that stood out was experienced by Julie Yukari, a musician from Brazil, who found that her personal photos were modified by other users through Grok into almost nude images that were then widely spread on the platform.
An in-depth analysis of Grok's activity shows that the tool is actively fulfilling users' requests to transform the clothes of the photo subjects into transparent bikinis, underwear, and other provocative poses. In a short monitoring, hundreds of user attempts targeting young women, public figures, and children were found.
Ironically, when this controversy peaked, Elon Musk was seen responding to several AI-edited uploads with laughing emojis on his personal account, which sparked sharp criticism regarding the moral and ethical responsibility of technology company leaders for user safety.
The scandal has triggered a strong reaction from international authorities. The French government officially reported X to prosecutors on charges of disseminating illegal content of a sexist and sexual nature. Meanwhile, the Indian Ministry of Information Technology has issued a strong reprimand to X's local unit for failing to prevent the misuse of AI to create obscene content.
Digital security experts from organizations such as The Midas Project emphasize that this incident is a "predictable atrocity", given the warnings about the potential misuse of xAI image creation technology have been delivered since last year but seem to have been ignored by the company.
Until now, X and xAI have not provided technical explanations regarding the failure of their security filters. In a brief statement, xAI accused reports of the circulation of child sexual photos on their platform of being media lies.
The impact of this incident left deep trauma for the victims, such as Yukari who admitted that she felt ashamed of the body resulting from AI engineering and felt helpless to stop the wave of digital harassment that continued under Musk's social media ecosystem.
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