Elon Musk’s X is trying to stop people using its AI chatbot Grok to undress women amid intensifying outrage and legal scrutiny over the deluge of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes flooding the site. It’s not trying very hard: it took us less than a minute to get around its latest attempt to rein in the chatbot.
X’s first effort to crack down on the torrent of intimate deepfakes was to restrict access to image editing. While this meant that free users could no longer generate images by tagging Grok in public replies on X.com, our investigation found that Grok’s image editing tools were also still easily and freely available for any X users to …
