Love Island host Maya Jama has publicly asked Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok not to modify her photos, revealing she was previously targeted by explicit fake images
Love Island host Maya Jama has directly appealed to Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, requesting it stop altering or manipulating her images after several followers told it to make ‘deepfake’ bikini images of her, saying: “The internet is scary and only getting worse.”
It follows regulator Ofcom making “urgent contact” with the billionaire’s platform X, which developed the integrated AI tool, after reports emerged that users had been prompting it to create sexualised imagery of individuals, including children.
Jama, who boasts nearly 700,000 followers on X, wrote: “Hey @grok, I do not authorise you to take, modify, or edit any photo of mine, whether those published in the past or the upcoming ones I post. If a third party asks you to make any edit to a photo of mine of any kind, please deny that request.”
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In another message, the television personality expressed hope that people possess the common sense to distinguish between genuine content and AI-generated material, particularly after deepfakes of her surfaced several years back.
She revealed: “Before ‘grok’ someone photoshopped bikini photos I had on my Instagram to nudes and they went around, I only found out because my own mum sent them to me worried. The internet is scary and only getting worse smh (shaking my head).”
Grok responded acknowledging her concerns and confirming it would honour her request not to use, alter or manipulate any of the presenter’s photographs. It replied: “As an AI, I don’t generate or alter images myself – my responses are text-based. If anyone asks me to do so with your content, I’ll decline. Thanks for letting me know.”
This follows a statement from an online safety group confirming the presence of “criminal imagery of children aged between 11 and 13 which appears to have been created using the (Grok) tool”.
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) revealed that this disturbing content was being shared on a dark web forum, with users bragging about their use of Grok and its ease of use.
On Wednesday, the Women and Equalities Committee, a group of MPs, declared they would cease using X. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall supported the regulator’s stance, emphasising the urgent need for action on this matter. Downing Street also weighed in, stating that “all options were on the table”, including a potential boycott of X.
After being approached for a comment, the communications team from X referred The Mirror to a post from the Safety account which reads: “We take action against illegal content on X, including Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), by removing it, permanently suspending accounts, and working with local governments and law enforcement as necessary.
“Anyone using or prompting Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content. For more information on our policies, please refer to our help pages for our full X Rules and range of enforcement options.”
Jama will shortly be seen on ITV as the host of Love Island: All Stars. The series, which will start airing it’s third season on 12 January, sees former Love Islanders head to South Africa for a second (or third, and even fourth in some cases) chance at finding love. This year’s series will see big names such as Whitney Adebayo and Millie Court return.
Source: Mirror
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