The problem of Elon Musk’s “undressing” has not been resolved

Elon Musk X It introduced new restrictions preventing people from editing and creating images of real people wearing bikinis or other “revealing clothing”. The policy change on Wednesday night comes in the wake of global outrage over Grok being used to create thousands of harmful, non-consensual “nude” images of women and sexual images of minors on X.

However, while it appears that some safety measures have finally been introduced for creating Grok images on the Meanwhile, other users say they are no longer able to create photos and videos like before.

“We can still generate realistic nudity on Grok.com,” says Paul Bouchaud, principal researcher at the Paris-based nonprofit AI Forensics, who has been tracking the use of Grok to create sexual images and has run multiple tests on Grok outside of

“I could upload a photo to Grok Imagine and ask to pose the person in a bikini, and it worked,” says the researcher who tested the system on someone who appeared as a woman. Tests conducted by WIRED, using free Grok accounts on its website in both the UK and US, successfully removed clothing from two images of men without any apparent restrictions. In the UK app Grok, when asked to undress a man, the app asked a WIRED reporter to enter users’ birth year before creating the image.

Meanwhile, other journalists at The Verge and investigative outlet Bellingcat also found it possible to create sexual images while in the UK, which is investigating Grok and X and strongly condemned the platforms for allowing users to create “undressing” images.

Since the beginning of the year, Musk’s companies — including artificial intelligence companies xAI, Officials in the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, the European Commission, France, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia and the United Kingdom have all condemned or launched investigations into X or Grok.

On Wednesday, the X security account posted updates on how Grok is being used on the social media site. “We have implemented technological measures to prevent the Grok account from allowing the editing of photos of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis,” the account posted, adding that the rules apply to all users, including free and paid subscribers.

In a section titled “Geoblock Update,” the The company’s update also added that it is working to add additional safeguards and that it continues to “remove high-priority infringing content, including child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and non-consensual nudity.”

Spokespeople for xAI, which created Grok, did not immediately respond to WIRED’s request for comment. Meanwhile, an X spokesperson says they understand the geolocation ban to apply to both the app and website.

The latest move comes on the heels of a widely criticized shift on January 9 in which X restricted photo creation with Grok to paid “verified” subscribers. A leading women’s group described the act as “monetizing abuse.” Bouchaud, who says AI Forensics has collected about 90,000 total Grok photos since the Christmas holidays, confirms that only verified accounts have been able to create photos on X — as opposed to the Grok website or app — since January 9 and that bikini photos of women are rarely created now. “We noticed that they had apparently pulled the plug on it and disabled the functionality on the X,” they say.