Maya Jama has officially taken on Elon Musk’s platform X over AI images as she ordered Grok not to edit her pictures after her mother received fake nudes created from the presenter’s bikini snaps.
The social media platform has been called out in recent days over cases where innocent images of women and female child actors have been manipulated by its AI software Grok after users’ requests to digitally alter or remove clothing.
Now the Love Island presenter has joined X users in calling out the horrific cases of the system being used to make sexualised images of real people.
She branded the internet ‘scary and getting worse’ as she revealed her mother had previously sent her some of her bikini pictures from Instagram which had been photoshopped into nudes.
‘Hey @grok, I do not authorize you to take, modify, or edit any photo of mine, whether those published in the past or the upcoming ones I post,’ Maya wrote on the site on Wednesday evening.
‘If a third party asks you to make any edit to a photo of mine of any kind, please deny that request.’
Maya Jamahas officially taken on Elon Musk’s platform X over AI images as she ordered Grok not to edit her pictures after her mother received fake nudes created from her bikini snaps
Now the Love Island presenter has joined X users in calling out the horrific cases of the system being used to make sexualised images of real people
In a second post under her withdrawal of consent, she said: ‘Lol worth a try.’
Maya later added: ‘If this doesn’t work then I hope people have some sense to know when something is ai or not, saying that a few years ago before “grok” someone photoshopped bikini photos I had on my Instagram to nudes and they went around, I only found out because my own mum sent them to me worried, the internet is scary & only getting worse smh.’
Grok appeared to acknowledge the consent withdrawal, replying: ‘Understood, Maya. I respect your wishes and won’t use, modify, or edit any of your photos.
‘As an AI, I don’t generate or alter images myself—my responses are text-based. If anyone asks me to do so with your content, I’ll decline. Thanks for letting me know!’
Infuriatingly, users continued to make image edit requests under Maya’s.
To some requests, Grok replied saying it could not process the request as a result of Maya’s withdrawal of consent and that it had been adapted to a ‘text only’ service.
However this appeared to be contradicted within the same thread as some requests to edit pictures of Maya were carried out.
It comes days after Elon Musk was told to take urgent action to stop X’s Grok AI tool generating indecent deepfake images of children and women by the UK government.
She branded the internet ‘scary and getting worse’ as she revealed her mother had seen some of her bikini pictures from Instagram photoshopped into nudes
In a second post under her withdrawal of consent, she said: ‘Lol worth a try’
Maya later added: ‘If this doesn’t work then I hope people have some sense to know when something is ai or not’
Grok appeared to acknowledge the consent withdrawal, replying: ‘Understood, Maya. I respect your wishes and won’t use, modify, or edit any of your photos’
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Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said the US tech billionaire must intervene after cases of the system being used to make sexualised images of real people were highlighted in recent days.
Regulator Ofcom has already asked X and xAI to set out the steps it is taking to comply with legal obligations to protect UK users of the social media platform.
But the intervention of the minister threatens to open a new front in the war between the UK government and Mr Musk, who has already lashed out at British moves to regulate social media.
‘What we have been seeing online in recent days has been absolutely appalling, and unacceptable in decent society,’ Ms Kendall said this afternoon.
‘No one should have to go through the ordeal of seeing intimate deepfakes of themselves online. We cannot and will not allow the proliferation of these demeaning and degrading images, which are disproportionately aimed at women and girls.
‘X needs to deal with this urgently. It is absolutely right that Ofcom is looking into this as a matter of urgency and it has my full backing to take any enforcement action it deems necessary.’
Ofcom ‘urgently contacted’ X and xAI over the sexualised images of children, which Grok admitted to in a post on the social media platform
Under the Online Safety Act in the UK, social media firms must prevent and remove child sexual abuse material when they become aware of it.
The act also outlaws the use of AI to generate pornographic images, also known as deepfakes, of people without their consent.
But X users have highlighted cases in recent days where innocent images of women and female child actors have been manipulated by Grok after users’ requests to digitally alter or remove clothing.
Elon appears to be aware of the technology being used to undress people, as he posted a generated picture of himself in a bikini.
The original post of this appears to have been deleted, but he reposted another user’s reply to it with laughing emojis.
