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EU should ban AI nudification apps in wake of Grok scandal, say lawmakers – POLITICO

EU should ban AI nudification apps in wake of Grok scandal, say lawmakers – POLITICO

Such systems should “be banned from the EU market” under the bloc’s AI law, they say. The call is signed by lawmakers from groups including the center-right European People’s Party, the center-left Socialists and Democrats, the Greens, the liberal Renew and The Left. Following the scandal over X, the Commission requested additional information and ordered X to retain all Grok-related documents and data until the end of the year. X announced late Wednesday that it would stop users from “editing of images of real people in revealing clothes such as bikinis.” Yet POLITICO was able to verify that users in Brussels, Paris and London were still able to generate images of people in bikinis on Thursday morning. The lawmakers said it wasn’t sufficient to tackle the problem using only the bloc’s platform law, the Digital Services Act, which sets content moderation standards for platforms such as X. They asked the Commission to “confirm these systems are banned from the EU market under the AI Act or other EU legislation.” Under the AI law, certain AI …

‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viral | AI (artificial intelligence)

‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viral | AI (artificial intelligence)

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. The fake, sexualised images were posted publicly on X, freely available for millions of people to inspect. Relatively tame requests by X users to alter photographs to show women in bikinis, rapidly evolved during the first week of the year, hour by hour, into increasingly explicit demands for women to be dressed in transparent bikinis, then in bikinis made of dental floss, placed in sexualised positions, and made to bend over so their genitals were visible. By 8 …