X AI’s ‘Grok’ and the Generating of Non-Consensual, Explicit Images w/ University of Canterbury’s Dr Cassandra Mudgway: 15 January, 2026
X AI’s ‘Grok’ and the Generating of Non-Consensual, Explicit Images w/ University of Canterbury’s Dr Cassandra Mudgway: 15 January, 2026
Thursday, January 15, 2026
Grok, an artificial intelligence chatbot on X AI, has come under fire for allowing users to edit images of real people to show them in revealing outfits.
These include potentially pornographic and non-consensual images involving women and children.
Wire Host Caeden spoke to Dr Cassandra Mudgway, senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Canterbury, about this issue and what regulation should look like.