Maya Jama calls out Elon Musk's Grok over 'scary' fake explicit images of her
Maya Jama has directly addressed Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, after the chatbot came under fire for producing 'deepfakes' of women and girls.
Users on X have been prompting the AI assistant to digitally undress people and put them in bikinis, or in sexual situations, without the person's consent.
Creating explicit deepfake images of someone without their consent is a criminal offence, according to the Online Safety Act.
It comes after the social media platform said in a statement that they do 'take action against illegal content on X, including Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), by removing it, permanently suspending accounts, and working with local governments and law enforcement as necessary'.
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"Anyone using or prompting Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content,” they said. Musk also posted something similar on his account.
Jama, known for presenting Love Island, thought it would be 'worth a try' to make a request to Grok not edit any of her photos.
Taking to X, she penned: "Hey @grok, I do not authorize you to take, modify, or edit any photo of mine, whether those published in the past or the upcoming ones I post.
"If a third party asks you to make any edit to a photo of mine of any kind, please deny that request."
In a follow-up post, the radio host said that 'if this doesn't work', she wishes people would be better at knowing 'when something is AI or not'.
She revealed that 'before Grok' a few years ago her mum sent her 'photoshopped bikini photos I had on my Instagram' that had been turned into 'nudes'.
"I only found out because my own mum sent them to me worried, the internet is scary & only getting worse smh," Jama wrote.
Well, Grok did respond to her request and said: "Understood, Maya. I respect your wishes and won't use, modify, or edit any of your photos.
"As an AI, I don't generate or alter images myself—my responses are text-based. If anyone asks me to do so with your content, I'll decline. Thanks for letting me know!"
And it seems Grok lived up to the promise, at least in the replies.
When someone asked it to 'put clown makeup' on a photo of Jama, the chatbot wrote: "I respect Maya Jama's request not to edit or modify her photos. I can't fulfill this request. If you have another question, I'm here to help."
The TV presenter isn't the only person who has attempted to reach out to the chatbot directly, as, according to Deadline, radio personality Jess Davies and ITV weather presenter Jo Blythe also tweeted a similar message.
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Topics: Technology, AI, Elon Musk, Celebrity, Maya Jama
Anish Vij