The Grok ‘undressing’ scandal highlights escalating risks in a toxic digital ecosystem

The Grok ‘undressing’ scandal highlights escalating risks in a toxic digital ecosystem

The ‘undressing’ AI chatbot controversy, in which Elon Musk’s Grok generated and shared at least 1.8 million nonconsensual sexualised images over nine days, highlights the harmful abuses and risks of unchecked generative AI. It was among the themes of exploration at an information integrity summit in Stellenbosch last week.

Preserving human Voices and Faces

Last month, controversy erupted in Ireland regarding Grok, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that is integrated into the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, now owned by Elon Musk. The controversy centres on the “nudification” feature of Grok, which has been used to generate non-consensual, sexually explicit, sometimes violent deepfake images of women and children. It provoked a huge reaction, opened up the debate around many conce…

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