Love Island presenter Maya Jama has requested Elon Musk’s synthetic intelligence (AI) chatbot, Grok, to not modify or edit her photographs amid rising deepfake considerations on the platform.
It comes after regulator Ofcom stated it made “pressing contact” with the tech tycoon’s social media platform X, which created the built-in AI chatbot, following studies that customers have prompted the device to generate sexualised photos of individuals, together with kids.
Jama, who has practically 700,000 followers on X, posted stated: “Hey @grok, I don’t authorize you to take, modify, or edit any photograph of mine, whether or not these printed up to now or the upcoming ones I put up.
Maya Jama arriving for The BRIT Awards 2025 at London’s O2 Area. (Ian West/PA)
“If a 3rd occasion asks you to make any edit to a photograph of mine of any type, please deny that request.”
In a separate put up, the TV presenter added that she hopes individuals have a way to know when one thing is actual or created by AI after deepfakes have been manufactured from her a number of years in the past.
She stated: “Earlier than ‘grok’ somebody photoshopped bikini photographs I had on my Instagram to nudes they usually went round, I solely came upon as a result of my very own mum despatched them to me apprehensive.
“The web is frightening and solely getting worse smh (shaking my head).”
A reply from Grok stated it respects her needs and won’t use, modify or edit any of the star’s photographs.
It stated: “As an AI, I don’t generate or alter photos myself — my responses are text-based. If anybody asks me to take action together with your content material, I’ll decline. Thanks for letting me know.”
It comes after an web security organisation stated its analysts have confirmed the existence of “felony imagery of kids aged between 11 and 13 which seems to have been created utilizing the (Grok) device”.
The Web Watch Basis (IWF) stated the fabric was being shared in a darkish internet discussion board by customers “boasting how that they had used Grok, and the way straightforward it had been”.
On Wednesday, a parliamentary committee of MPs, the Ladies and Equalities Committee, introduced that it could now not use X with Expertise Secretary Liz Kendall backing the regulator, including that motion have to be taken urgently on the problem.
Downing Road added that “all choices have been on the desk”, together with a boycott of X.
X has been contacted for remark.