A standalone version of Grok, Grok Imagine, easily accessible through a web browser, was still responding to prompts to remove the clothes from senior female politicians. A standalone version of Grok, Grok Imagine, easily accessible through a web browser, was still responding to prompts to remove the clothes from senior female politicians. X has continued to allow users to post highly sexualised videos of women in bikinis generated by its AI tool Grok, despite the company's claim to have cracked down on misuse. The Guardian was able to create short videos of people stripping to bikinis from photographs of fully clothed, real women. It was also possible to post this adult content on to X's public platform without any sign of it being moderated, meaning the clip could be viewed within seconds by anyone with an account.

Elon Musk's AI model Grok will no longer be able to edit photos of real people to show them in revealing clothing, after widespread concern over sexualised AI deepfakes in countries including the UK and US. We have implemented technological measures to prevent the Grok account from allowing the editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis. This restriction applies to all users, including paid subscribers, reads an announcement on X, which operates the Grok AI tool. The change was announced hours after California's top prosecutor said the state was probing the spread of sexualised AI deepfakes, including of children, generated by the AI model. The update expands measures that stop all users, including paid subscribers, editing images of real people in revealing outfits.

By 8 January as many as 6,000 bikini demands were being made to the chatbot every hour, according to analysis conducted for the Guardian. By 8 January as many as 6,000 bikini demands were being made to the chatbot every hour, according to analysis conducted for the Guardian. '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 targeted Like 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.

Media watchdog Ofcom said it was seeking urgent answers from X, to announce action within'days not weeks'. Media watchdog Ofcom said it was seeking urgent answers from X, to announce action within'days not weeks'. Elon Musk's X threatened with UK ban over wave of indecent AI images Fri 9 Jan 2026 17.49 ESTFirst published on Fri 9 Jan 2026 15.00 EST Elon Musk's X has been ordered by the UK government to tackle a wave of indecent AI images or face a de facto ban, as an expert said the platform was no longer a "safe space" for women. The media watchdog, Ofcom, confirmed it would accelerate an investigation into X as a backlash grew against the site, which has hosted a deluge of images depicting partially stripped women and children. X announced a restriction on creating images via the Grok AI tool on Friday morning in response to the global outcry.

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An AI that scrawls bikinis over nude photographs of women has been developed by scientists to block racy online images. The system, built at a Catholic institute in Brazil, automatically seeks out lewd pictures and digitally adds swimwear to speed up the process of censorsing images. Researchers warned that while the AI was designed to be used for good, cyber criminals could one day reverse the process to erase bikinis from people's photos. An AI that scrawls bikinis over nude photographs of women has been developed by scientists to block racy online images. Pictured are some of the AI's successful (centre row) and unsuccessful (bottom row) attempts to censor nude images (top line) The AI was trained by software engineers at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul using 2,000 images of women.

NSFW Artificially intelligent software is used more and more to automatically detect and ban nude images on social networks and similar sites. However, today's algorithms and models aren't perfect at clocking racy snaps, and a lot of content moderation still falls to humans. Enter an alternative solution: use AI to magically draw bikinis on photos to, er, cover up a woman's naughty bits. A group of researchers from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, have trained generative adversarial networks to perform this very act, and automatically censor nudity. In a paper for the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) in Rio de Janeiro earlier this month, the eggheads presented some of their results.