# [Grok's Gruesome New Hobby](https://512pixels.net/2026/01/grok-images/) – 512 Pixels Stephen Hackett quoting Elissa Well at The Verge; > xAI’s Grok is removing clothing from pictures of people without their consent following this week’s rollout of a feature that allows X users to instantly edit any image using the bot without needing the original poster’s permission. Not only does the original poster not get notified if their picture was edited, but Grok appears to have few guardrails in place for preventing anything short of full explicit nudity. In the last few days, X has been flooded with imagery of women and children appearing pregnant, skirtless, wearing a bikini, or in other sexualized situations. World leaders and celebrities, too, have had their likenesses used in images generated by Grok. Before Eloise was born, Abby and I made the decision to not share her face online, except for the sometimes annual holiday family photo. Joanna Stern made a [great little video](https://youtu.be/pDXcika12xE?si=iqVCgCigs1rqJw6j) about it six years ago. I have [[Child Predators Use Amazon’s Twitch to Systematically Track Kids Who Stream – Cecilia D’Anastasio|quite strong feelings]] about sharing stuff my kid and my friends' kids do online. The core of my logic boils down to, I shouldn't have posted as much as I did and I was a semi-aware consenting teenager when MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter took over my online life. How could my (for now) three-year-old daughter even know what is happening? She cannot. We were asked a lot about our decision at first. One grandparent actually thought we never took photos at all of her. After a brief explanation, folks seemed to understand or even respect our decision. If we did share photos, what would I signing her and myself up for? One possibility, it turns out, is this horrific and disgusting use of generative AI. Back to Stephen; > Clearly, a lot of folks on X don’t care about much of this. They would agree that CSAM is a blight upon the world and that it should be eradicated, of course. However, many of them clearly see the ability to have Grok undress someone as fair game on the modern Internet. > > I could not disagree more. > > “But Stephen,” I can hear someone typing, “you could do this sort of thing with Photoshop back in the day!” > > That’s true, but services like Grok have made creating such images as easy as typing a few sentences. I had the same thought about Photoshop. The difference is the complete lack of friction with a generative chat service. You don't need to know how to use a photo editing application. You just have to know how to describe what you want. More than highlighting the horrible capabilities of "AI," I keep thinking about the people writing these prompts. It reminds me of a [quote from *The Last of Us*](https://youtu.be/a_FUN8hs-yc?si=THVWfmSlC0coDClp&t=2216) that Bill says when the trio approaches the church basement to gather supplies. > "Well, as bad as those things are, at least they are predictable. It's the normal people that scare me. You of all people should understand that."