X, formerly Twitter, has added a button to block Grok AI from editing or modifying images uploaded to the platform.
The update, spotted by Social Media Today, arrives after X faced heavy scrutiny for letting Grok generate sexualized images of users under their posts. With the new button, you can disable Grok’s ability to modify images before uploading them.
However, it’s not easy to find the new button. After selecting the image you’d like to post on X, you’ll see an option to edit with a pencil icon. Tap the edit button, then select the flag icon to adjust the image’s content settings. On this page, you’ll see a button to “Block modifications by Grok.” If you enable it, you can “prevent @Grok from modifying this content,” the description reads.
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The controversy around Grok’s image generation has led to a trend in which users have requested the chatbot generate bikini images of other users under their posts without their consent. In at least a couple of cases, the built-in AI generated sexualized images of minors, drawing the ire of users, politicians, and regulators worldwide.
Two US senators asked Apple and Google to ban X on their app marketplaces since both of them have policies against platforms supporting non-consensual sexual imagery. Grok, meanwhile, apologized for its behavior, and X threatened to ban accounts and take legal action against users who used the chatbot for illegal imagery.
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X later said that it had “implemented technological measures to prevent the Grok account from allowing the editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis.” Even after the announcement, Grok was caught generating revealing pictures.
X has not made an official announcement about its new button to block Grok from modifying content, so its effectiveness remains to be seen. We spotted the new button active on the iOS mobile app.
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