The standalone app of the artificial intelligence tool was still allowing users to generate such photos without subscribing.
Social media platform X on Friday appeared to have limited the image-generation feature of the company’s artificial intelligence application Grok to subscribers after the tool drew condemnation for creating non-consensual sexually explicit photos.
Grok had allowed requests by users to digitally manipulate photos of real persons – mostly women – by undressing them and sexualising their images without their consent. It had been creating thousands of such images every hour, Bloomberg reported.
The Grok account on X was on Friday informing users making similar requests that the image-generation and editing were “currently limited” to paying subscribers. The feature had been available to all users for free.
