Users were prompting Grok, the platform’s built-in AI feature, to “nudify” women’s images.
That reluctance only heightens the risks of Grok’s “nudifying” capabilities. “When one company is able to do something and is not held fully accountable for it,” Winters says, “it sends a signal to other Big Tech giants that they can do the next thing.”
"Anything they post now has the ability to be undressed, in any way a person wants, and they can do whatever they want with that photo of you.”
I don’t want to defend the “nudify” thing but this statement was true ten years ago, twenty years ago, and even all the way back, shortly after the invention of photography.
I remember when Photoshop began to be regularly pirated and people were pasting the faces of girls into porn images. There was news about it back then too.
The lesson here is this: If you don’t want people to manipulate your images do not post them. That is the one and only true way to prevent something like this from happening. Nothing else will work.
There’s no way to put this genie back in the bottle. People are just going to have to learn to live with the possibility that they will have public images of themselves that they themselves posted to the public will be manipulated by the public.
When you post an image to the Internet, you’re posting it to the entire world. That’s approximately 6 billion people who have access to it (people with Internet). That’s way too big a number to expect that there will be no bad actors.
