"Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X", 6 May 2025

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, as first flagged t0 404 Media by Kolina Koltai, a researcher and trainer at Bellingcat. 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. Sometimes Grok will reply with a link that will send users to a Grok chat where the image will be generated. 

Musk has repeatedly positioned Grok as a less restricted and “based” alternative to other large language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which are known for having strong guardrails that prevent users from generating some controversial content, including nudity or adult content. We’ve reported on “undress” and “nudify” bots and apps many times over the years, and they are usually more exploitative in the sense that they will produce full nude images of anyone a user provides an image of. But Grok’s “remove her clothes” function is particularly bad even if it only produces images of people in swimsuits and lingerie because of how accessible the tool is, because it allows users to reply to publicly posted images on X with a prompt that will undress them, and because the nonconsensual image if often posted in reply to the user’s original image. 

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Grok will reject prompts that ask to make people entirely nude. “Ethical concerns arise with this request, as altering images to depict nudity can violate privacy and consent, especially since the original poster (@[REDACTED]) may not have agreed to such modifications,” Grok said in response to a request from a user to undress a photo of a woman after it had already modified her original photograph to make her seem like she was wearing just her underwear. 

X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.