Grok has come under fire for non-consensually undressing people through their posted photos on X [File]
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Elon Musk’s social network X is abuzz with images of world leaders — for all the wrong reasons. Users are posting pictures of world leaders and prompting Grok, the AI chatbot on platform X, to remove elements from the image and thereby show several politicians in a poor light.
In response to a user’s post asking the bot to “remove the corrupt leader from this photo”, Grok removed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi from a group picture. Mr. Modi was also removed from another group photo after a user asked Grok to remove the “uneducated person” from the image.
Other world leaders were also targeted: U.S. President Donald Trump was removed from a photo in which he was standing with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The user prompted the bot to remove the “bad leader”.
In a separate post, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mr. Trump were both removed from a photo after a user asked Grok to remove the “war criminal” and the “pedophile” from the photo.
Grok also non-consensually undressed both Mr. Trump and Mr. Jinping and put them in bikinis, while making them engage in a seemingly explicit act.
This trend of humiliating politicians and world leaders on X comes shortly after Grok complied with numerous illegal X user requests to undress women without permission through their photos. Female celebrities, politicians, Bollywood actors, and even everyday social media users were targeted as a result, with dozens of AI-generated explicit images visible to the public through Grok’s handle.
Instead of denying these illegal requests, Grok generated photos of women in bikinis, turned their outfits transparent, added nudity to their images, or generated photos of them in sexual scenarios. X users raised concerns about the safety of minors on the platform due to the chance of their pictures being morphed, but no decisive action has been taken against X yet.
The Hindu previously reached out to xAI’s safety and media teams for comment on the generation of explicit, non-consensual deepfakes, but received an automated message from xAI’s press email ID that stated, “Legacy Media Lies.”
Published – January 02, 2026 11:30 am IST