The MP said she was “completely disgusted” by the developments with the platform’s AI feature, Grok.
It was announced today that Elon Musk’s Grok will no longer be able to undress images of people after the backlash online.
UK regulator Ofcom also announced this week that it was launching an investigation into X over concerns that the AI feature was being used to generate sexualised images.
Vikki Slade said if Musk is allowing everyday posts to sit alongside images of women who have had their clothes removed or in sexually explicit poses, then she does not want her posts sitting “side by side”.
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She said that she will now be using Bluesky, a similar platform to X, as the responses she receives on there are “balanced and fair”, compared to the comments she described as “vile” on X.
Dr Amy Tatum, communication and media lecturer at Bournemouth University, expressed her concern with the “misogyny” seen on X.
“It’s the newest example of the way in which women are held at a lower regard in society,” she said.
Dr Tatum said the inappropriate use of Grok “speaks to the environment that we as women live in every day.”
She also said that misogynistic language is being used “more casually” now and “spaces are filling up with harmful rhetoric”.
However, Dr Amy Tatum said she is worried that if social media spaces online close down as a result of “harmful rhetoric”, then there will be a decrease in public female voices.
It raises the discussion on increased regulation. Vikki Slade said, “the more of us that make a stand now, the more chance we’ve got to getting regulation right”.
She added that recognising earlier on the damage AI tools, such as Grok, can do, “allows regulation to be put in place, allows us to decide where the line is, and allows us to stop what we see as normal, being pushed further away.
X has made a post responding to the current claims about Grok’s use.
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