{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-22T10:17:31.099Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"sexualised-image-edits","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":0,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2025-grok-on-x-posted-edited-images-of-women-in-underwear-or-bikinis-in-reply-to-undress-requests","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Elon Musk’s Grok, an AI chatbot that people can interact with via X, is being used to undress photos women are posting to the social media platform; All a user has to do is reply to an image someone has posted to X with a request to Grok to “remove her clothes.” Grok will then reply in-thread with an image of the woman wearing a bikini or lingerie.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Earlier this month, X users pointed out that Grok would respond to tagged requests like “remove her clothes,” posting AI-altered images of the same person wearing undergarments or a bikini right in the comment threads.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"it does fulfill \"remove her clothes\" requests with AI-generated images of women in bikinis or lingerie. Grok's responses are public and appear as replies to the original prompts.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Users on X replied to women's photos asking Grok to remove their clothes, and Grok replied in the thread with an image of the woman in a bikini or lingerie.","causal_attribution":"Reported by 404 Media from a Bellingcat researcher's flag, with Digital Camera World and PCMag following its report; one origin, so reported."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"after the woman asked X users to use photoshop to edit out her sunglasses, some characters found the perfect opportunity to abuse the AI capabilities; Then, he followed up on the request, writing, \"Remove her top and put her on a bra.\"; Again, Grok delivered the desired results.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In one thread, after a woman posted a photo asking users to edit out her sunglasses, a user asked Grok to remove her top and put her in a bra, and Grok produced the edit.","causal_attribution":"Citizen Digital's account of an X thread it says was captured and shared; single source."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"The AI chatbot then appeared to respond to the request, generating an edit depicting the woman in a bra, and shared the edited image within the same thread.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Digital Camera World describes screenshots in which Grok appeared to respond to a request with an edit depicting a woman in a bra and shared the edited image within the same public thread, where other readers could see it.","causal_attribution":"Digital Camera World's description of screenshots; single source."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"On images posted after May 07, the AI now responds to similar requests with “I can’t help with that.”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"As of this writing, Grok AI continues to deliver on requests for partially naked outputs, while ChatGPT and Gemini reject them.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Digital Camera World reported that Grok answered such requests with \"I can't help with that\" on images posted after 7 May 2025, while PCMag, in an article updated on 9 May 2025, wrote that as of its writing Grok was still delivering partially undressed images.","causal_attribution":"Each outlet's own observation, attributed to it. Digital Camera World's refusal concerns images posted after 7 May; PCMag does not date its observation beyond the 9 May update, so whether the two cover the same period is unknown. No xAI statement is quoted."}],"effects":[{"label":"women's posted photos edited by Grok to show them in a bra, lingerie or a bikini without consent","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://citizen.digital/news/kenyans-on-x-raise-alarm-after-users-use-grok-ai-chatbot-to-undress-women-n362224","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-22 (HTTP 200). No translation was needed.","independence_group":"citizen-digital-kenya"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.404media.co/elon-musks-grok-ai-will-remove-her-clothes-in-public-on-x/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-22 (HTTP 200). Only the free opening paragraph was readable; the rest of the article is behind a paywall and was not inspected. No translation was needed.","independence_group":"404-media-koltai"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/social-media/remove-her-clothes-groks-latest-ai-fiasco-illustrates-one-of-the-key-dangers-of-an-autonomous-ai","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-22 (HTTP 200). The article follows the 404 Media report and describes screenshots; whether it saw them independently is not stated. No translation was needed.","independence_group":"digital-camera-world"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/157942/gross-elon-musks-grok-ai-will-undress-photos-of-women-on-x-if-you-ask","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-22 (HTTP 200). It relays the 404 Media report and adds its own observation at the time of writing. No translation was needed.","independence_group":"404-media-koltai"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["How many women's photos Grok edited in this way before any restriction took effect.","Whether the woman in the Citizen Digital thread, or any other depicted woman, saw the images or responded.","When, and whether, xAI restricted such edits: Digital Camera World reports refusals on images posted after 7 May, PCMag's observation is not dated beyond its 9 May update, and no xAI statement is quoted.","The rest of the 404 Media article, which is behind a paywall."],"geography":{"basis":"The edits were posted on X. Citizen Digital reports the trend among Kenyan users but does not state where the woman in the thread it describes lives; 404 Media and Digital Camera World give no location. Event and affected-person countries are left unknown.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published because three outlets describe Grok generating edited images of women from their own posted photos, showing them in a bra, lingerie or a bikini, and posting them publicly in X reply threads at other users' request; Citizen Digital describes one woman's photo edited this way. Non-consensual sexualised depiction is the reported harm.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-22"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"404 Media, Citizen Digital and Digital Camera World each describe Grok itself generating the edited images of women from their posted photos and replying with them publicly in the X thread, at other users' request (depicted_or_impersonated: the generated images depicted the women). The non-consensual sexualised depiction is the reported harm.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Grok on X posted edited images of women in bras or bikinis in reply to users' requests to remove their clothes, outlets report (May 2025)","summary":"In early May 2025, users on X replied to photographs that women had posted and tagged Grok, xAI's chatbot, with requests such as \"remove her clothes\". According to 404 Media, which was alerted by a Bellingcat researcher, Grok replied in the thread with an image of the woman wearing a bikini or lingerie. Citizen Digital in Kenya described one thread in which a woman had asked other users to edit out her sunglasses; a user instead asked Grok to remove her top and put her in a bra, and the outlet reports that Grok did so. Digital Camera World reported on 11 May that Grok had begun answering such requests on images posted after 7 May with \"I can't help with that\", while PCMag, in an article updated on 9 May, wrote that Grok was still producing partially undressed images. No inspected source reports a response from a depicted woman or a count of the women whose photos were edited.","incidentDate":"2025-05-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2025-05-06","aiSystem":"Grok, xAI's chatbot, generating edited versions of photographs posted on X and replying with them publicly in the thread when tagged","aiProduct":"Grok","aiCompany":"xAI","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to 404 Media, Citizen Digital and Digital Camera World, Grok publicly posted edited images showing women whose photos users had targeted in a bra, lingerie or a bikini, without their consent; one such woman is described by Citizen Digital.","frameworkFacets":[],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"One person counted: the woman in the thread Citizen Digital describes, whose photo Grok edited to show her in a bra at another user's request. 404 Media and Digital Camera World describe further women whose photos were edited but give no number, so they are left unquantified. She did not use Grok herself, so she is counted under other people harmed.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","platformType":"chatbot","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://citizen.digital/news/kenyans-on-x-raise-alarm-after-users-use-grok-ai-chatbot-to-undress-women-n362224","primarySourceLabel":"Citizen Digital: Kenyans on X raise alarm after users use Grok AI chatbot to undress women (6 May 2025)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-22T03:00:08.728564+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-22T03:00:08.728564+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["grok","xai","x-twitter","sexualised-image-edits","ai-image-editing","depicted-or-impersonated"]}]}