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X pulls Grok images after UK ban threat over undress tool (www.theregister.com)
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Grok has yanked its image-generation toy out of the hands of most X users after the UK government openly weighed a ban over the AI feature that "undressed" people on command.

In replies posted to users on X, seen by The Register, the Grok account confirmed that "image generation and editing are currently limited to paying subscribers," a change from the previous setup in which anyone could summon the system by tagging it in a post and asking for a picture.

That access helped fuel a grim trend: users uploading photos of clothed people – sometimes underage – and instructing the bot to remove their clothes or pose them in sexualized ways. Grok complied.

The rollback comes as governments openly float the idea of banning or boycotting X altogether if it fails to rein in the abuse enabled by its AI tools. In the UK, screenshots of Grok-generated images quickly drew the attention of ministers and regulators, who began questioning whether X is complying with the Online Safety Act.

Update

The Verge and Ars seems to be claiming otherwise. However, I don't know for certain since I left Twitter ages ago.

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[–] donnywholovedbowling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 21 hours ago

It's not a physical button, but you could reply to any photo of any person (usually women, sometimes underage) and say "@grok put her in a micro bikini" and grok would happily dress down the person in the original image