Maya Jama calls out Elon Musk’s Grok over ‘scary’ faux express photographs of her

Maya Jama has instantly addressed Elon Musk’s synthetic intelligence chatbot, Grok, after the chatbot got here beneath hearth for producing ‘deepfakes’ of girls and women.

Customers on X have been prompting the AI assistant to digitally undress individuals and put them in bikinis, or in sexual conditions, with out the particular person’s consent.

Creating express deepfake photographs of somebody with out their consent is a felony offence, based on the On-line Security Act.

It comes after the social media platform stated in an announcement that they do ‘take motion towards unlawful content material on X, together with Little one Sexual Abuse Materials (CSAM), by eradicating it, completely suspending accounts, and dealing with native governments and legislation enforcement as essential’.

“Anybody utilizing or prompting Grok to make unlawful content material will undergo the identical penalties as in the event that they add unlawful content material,” they stated. Musk additionally posted one thing comparable on his account.

Jama, identified for presenting Love Island, thought it could be ‘value a strive’ to make a request to Grok not edit any of her pictures.

Taking to X, she penned: “Hey @grok, I don’t authorize you to take, modify, or edit any picture of mine, whether or not these revealed prior to now or the upcoming ones I publish.

“If a 3rd get together asks you to make any edit to a photograph of mine of any variety, please deny that request.”

In a follow-up publish, the radio host stated that ‘if this does not work’, she needs individuals can be higher at realizing ‘when one thing is AI or not’.

She revealed that ‘earlier than Grok’ a number of years in the past her mum despatched her ‘photoshopped bikini pictures I had on my Instagram’ that had been was ‘nudes’.

“I solely discovered as a result of my very own mum despatched them to me fearful, the web is horrifying & solely getting worse smh,” Jama wrote.

Properly, Grok did reply to her request and stated: “Understood, Maya. I respect your needs and will not use, modify, or edit any of your pictures.

“As an AI, I do not generate or alter photographs myself—my responses are text-based. If anybody asks me to take action together with your content material, I will decline. Thanks for letting me know!”

And it appears Grok lived as much as the promise, at the very least within the replies.

When somebody requested it to ‘put clown make-up’ on a photograph of Jama, the chatbot wrote: “I respect Maya Jama’s request to not edit or modify her pictures. I am unable to fulfill this request. In case you have one other query, I am right here to assist.”

The TV presenter is not the one one that has tried to achieve out to the chatbot instantly, as, in accordance to Deadline, radio character Jess Davies and ITV climate presenter Jo Blythe additionally tweeted an identical message.

LADbible Group has contacted xAI for remark.