Is the game of defaming photos by distorting them over? Elon Musk’s X puts a big ban on Grok

AI Image Editing Elon Musk Elon Musk’s social media platform The reason for this was X’s AI chatbot Grok, which surprised users with its image editing capability. But this technology gradually became a cause of controversy.

Many users misused Grok and started changing people’s photos into obscene and indecent images without permission. Especially the photographs of women were tampered and made viral on social media, due to which serious questions were raised on the security arrangements of X.

What was the whole matter?

For the past few days, a trend was seen on X, which was called “Grok AI Bikini Image Trend” It is being said. In this trend, with the help of AI, normal pictures were being converted into obscene ones. There was a strong reaction to this in many countries including India and Britain. Questions arose whether X is not taking the privacy and security of its users seriously? After this increasing pressure, X took a big decision and closed the image editing facility of Grok for free users.

Why did X introduce paid system?

Now the facility to edit photos or create new photos from Grok will be available only to those users who have taken paid subscription of X. X says that paid users can be easily identified, which will make it possible to take action against wrongdoers. According to the company, this will curb the misuse of deepfakes and fake photos. However, some experts believe that just taking money will not completely solve the problem, rather it is necessary to make the technology more secure.

Indian government had taken a strict stance

• Taking a strong stand on the Grok AI bikini trend, the Indian government had clearly said that this kind of content will not be tolerated in the country.
• The government not only asked X to remove the objectionable content, but also asked what steps the company would take to prevent such cases in future.
• In response to this, X said that if any user uses AI wrongly or illegally, then strict action will be taken against him.

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Britain said it was a very serious matter

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer also expressed serious concern on this issue. According to the report of British newspaper Telegraph, all possible actions regarding X are being considered in Britain. The Prime Minister said that if the objectionable content is not removed immediately, the X app can be completely blocked in Britain.

Now what next?

Now everyone’s eyes are on whether X’s paid system will really be able to reduce the problem of deepfakes and obscene content or not.