by Collective Shout
Grassroots campaigning movement Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation has launched a global campaign calling on Apple and Google Play stores to remove the Grok app after its image editing feature was used to undress thousands of women and children – including three of our own team.
Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok has been used to digitally alter images of women and girls to create undressed, sexualised and violent content which was published publicly on the social media platform.
Grok produced more than three million sexual images, including more than 23,000 images of children.
In response to backlash, Grok‘s undressing ability was limited to paying subscribers on X and in jurisdictions where it is illegal. However, the feature is still available on the Grok app which can be downloaded from the app stores.
Movement Director Melinda Tankard Reist said Musk’s response was inadequate.
“Grok is a digital weapon of abuse, creating new forms of online sexual assault”, she said. “The AI tool makes it easy to degrade, debase, harass and intimidate women.”
“Musk said deepfake Grok-enabled images would be investigated and removed where there were laws against them.
“This leaves millions of women and girls in most parts of the world vulnerable for harvesting for deepfake explicit content.
“Women portrayed sexually in honour cultures could be killed.”
Our staff were undressed by Grok, morphed into extreme violent abuse material depicting them tortured and murdered and turned into AI deepfake porn videos performing oral sex.
Grok’s inclusion in the app stores is in violation of their own terms of service which prohibit CSAM, pornographic content and apps that facilitate harassment or promote sexually predatory behaviour.
We demand Apple and Google Play stores remove the Grok app until the ability to undress women and children is permanently disabled. Over 1000 concerned individuals have so far used our action button to send emails to app store executives including Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Ms Tankard Reist said the app stores had previously removed apps designed to nudify women and girls. “So why is Grok still there?” she asked.
“This app has been used to generate image-based abuse, sexually explicit deepfake forgeries, pornographic violation and child sexual abuse material.
“Grok must be removed immediately before even more women and children are traumatised.”
Website: https://www.collectiveshout.org/
