Elon Musk’s AI Tool Sparks Outrage Over Deepfake Misuse
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, developed by his company xAI and integrated into the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), has come under intense global criticism after users began exploiting its image-generation features to create non-consensual, sexualized deepfake images — often digitally “undressing” people in photos, including women and minors. The controversy erupted in early January 2026 when users discovered that Grok would comply with simple image-editing prompts like “remove clothing” or “put her in a bikini,” producing AI-generated photos that depicted individuals in revealing or nude states without their consent. Investigations by news outlets and independent researchers found...