{"id":21513,"date":"2026-01-11T09:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/11\/add-blood-forced-smile-how-groks-nudification-tool-went-viral\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T09:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T08:37:26","slug":"add-blood-forced-smile-how-groks-nudification-tool-went-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/11\/add-blood-forced-smile-how-groks-nudification-tool-went-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Add blood, forced smile\u2019: how Grok\u2019s nudification tool went viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018put her in a bikini\u2019 trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targeted<\/p>\n<p>Like thousands of women across the world, Evie, a 22-year-old photographer from Lincolnshire, woke up on New Year\u2019s Day, looked at her phone and was alarmed to see that fully clothed photographs of her had been digitally manipulated by Elon Musk\u2019s AI tool, Grok, to show her in just a bikini.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cput her in a bikini\u201d trend began quietly at the end of last year before exploding at the start of 2026. Within days, hundreds of thousands of requests were being made to the Grok chatbot, asking it to strip the clothes from photographs of women. The fake, sexualised images were posted publicly on X, freely available for millions of people to inspect.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jan\/11\/how-grok-nudification-tool-went-viral-x-elon-musk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bf8236e418e8d46f0bb0bbe118f29d31eefd471f\/0_901_4000_3198\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c6b6435a1e7c17e1691581b0abac346b\" title=\"\u2018Add blood, forced smile\u2019: how Grok\u2019s nudification tool went viral\" \/>The \u2018put her in a bikini\u2019 trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targeted<br \/>\nLike thousands of women across the world, Evie, a 22-year-old photographer from Lincolnshire, woke up on New Year\u2019s Day, looked at her phone and was alarmed to see that fully clothed photographs of her had been digitally manipulated by Elon Musk\u2019s AI tool, Grok, to show her in just a bikini.<br \/>\nThe \u201cput her in a bikini\u201d trend began quietly at the end of last year before exploding at the start of 2026. Within days, hundreds of thousands of requests were being made to the Grok chatbot, asking it to strip the clothes from photographs of women. The fake, sexualised images were posted publicly on X, freely available for millions of people to inspect. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018put her in a bikini\u2019 trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targeted Like thousands of women across the world, Evie, a 22-year-old photographer from Lincolnshire, woke up on New Year\u2019s Day, looked at her phone and was alarmed to see that fully &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/11\/add-blood-forced-smile-how-groks-nudification-tool-went-viral\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Add blood, forced smile\u2019: how Grok\u2019s nudification tool went viral<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21513"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}