You may (type of) block Grok from enhancing your uploaded photographs

Folks can block the xAI’s Grok chatbot from creating modifications of their uploaded pictures on social community X. Neither X or xAI, each Elon Musk-owned companies, have made a public announcement about this characteristic, which customers started noticing on the iOS app inside the picture/video add menu over the previous few days.

This feature is probably going a response to Grok’s newest scandal, which started at the beginning of 2026 when the addition of picture technology instruments to the chatbot noticed about 3 million sexualized or nudified pictures created. An estimated 23,000 of the pictures made in that 11-day interval contained sexualized pictures of youngsters, based on the Heart for Countering Digital Hate. Grok is now dealing with two separate investigations by regulators within the EU over the difficulty.

The constructive facet of the latest characteristic addition is that X and xAI have taken a step towards limiting inappropriate makes use of of Grok. This block is a straightforward toggle and it hasn’t been buried within the UI. In order that’s good.

The damaging facet, nevertheless, is that this token gesture that does not quantity to any critical enchancment to how Grok works or can be utilized. It is nice that the chatbot will not alter the file uploaded by one particular person, however as reported by The Verge, the block solely limits tagging Grok in a reply to create a picture edit. There are many workarounds for these devoted people who insist on having the ability to use generative AI to undress folks with out their consent or data.

Hopefully xAI has extra highly effective protecting instruments within the works. The constraints Grok on placing real people in scanty clothing that X introduced in January appear to have had solely partial success at greatest. If this extra and slim use case is all the corporate presents, then the claims of being a zero-tolerance house for nonconsensual nudity are going to ring hole. Particularly since, as we noted at the time, xAI may cease permitting picture technology in any respect till the difficulty is correctly and totally fastened.