{"id":8063,"date":"2026-01-14T16:07:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/opposition-grok-stripping-children\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T16:07:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:07:34","slug":"opposition-grok-stripping-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/opposition-grok-stripping-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition to Elon Musk\u2019s AI Stripping Clothing Off Children Is Nearly Universal, Polling Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Color us shocked: pretty much everyone hates that Elon Musk\u2019s Grok has been digitally undressing photos of adults and children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">At least that\u2019s the case in the UK, providing the closest thing we\u2019ve currently got to a gauge of the public sentiment on the issue. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/yougov.co.uk\/technology\/articles\/53828-ai-tools-should-not-be-allowed-to-make-undressed-images-say-britons\" rel=\"nofollow\">new survey<\/a> conducted by YouGov amid the latest controversy surrounding the xAI chatbot, a staggering 97 percent of respondents said that AI tools shouldn\u2019t be allowed to generate sexually explicit content of children, and 96 percent said they shouldn\u2019t be able to generate \u201cundressed\u201d images of minors only wearing clothing like underwear, either. Sanity may not prevail on X, but it does at least appear to still have a firm grip in real life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">The overwhelming consensus goes to show just how much of a nerve xAI and Grok struck over the past week and half as the bot allowed users to easily generate nudes or sexually charged images of people, many of them minors, whose photos were shared on X, Musk\u2019s social media platform where Grok operates.\u00a0The trend spiraled out of control so quickly that the AI content analysis firm Copyleaks <a href=\"https:\/\/copyleaks.com\/blog\/grok-and-nonconsensual-image-manipulation\">estimated<\/a> the bot was generating a nonconsensually sexualized image every single minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Outrage quickly spread against the appalling practice among the public and regulators, and some countries, including Malaysia and Indonesia, moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cg7y10xm4x2o\">ban access to X outright<\/a>. Prime minister Keir Starmer has hinted that the UK could follow suit. The saga also put pressure on Google and Apple for continuing to host X on their app stores, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/google\/2026\/01\/apps-like-grok-are-explicitly-banned-under-googles-rules-why-is-it-still-in-the-play-store\/\">despite it violating the rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Yet xAI has not made an official statement regarding the Grok generations, which some experts say could be illegal \u2014 despite <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/xai\/status\/1945039609840185489?lang=en\">facing the public<\/a> for some of Grok\u2019s previous controversies, such as when it began styling itself as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/grok-mocks-developers-racist-posts\">MechaHitler<\/a>\u201d during a racist posting spree. Musk, meanwhile, simply <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-intelligence\/elon-comment-grok-children\">joked<\/a> that the whole affair was \u201cway funnier\u201d than the trends started by other AI chatbots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Overall, the YouGov poll shows that the British public continues to despise Musk\u2019s platform, with 65 percent holding a negative view of X, and only 12 percent holding a positive one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Additionally, 87 percent believe AIs like Grok shouldn\u2019t be allowed to generate \u201cundressed\u201d images of real adults in racy outfits like underwear, lingerie, or bikinis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\"><strong>More on AI:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-intelligence\/live-grok-nonconsensual-images\"><em>Live Coverage: Is Grok Still Being Used to Create Nonconsensual Sexual Images of Women and Girls?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-intelligence\/opposition-grok-stripping-children\">Opposition to Elon Musk\u2019s AI Stripping Clothing Off Children Is Nearly Universal, Polling Shows<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/\">Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Color us shocked: pretty much everyone hates that Elon Musk\u2019s Grok has been digitally undressing photos of adults and children. 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