Priyanka Chaturvedi seeks urgent govt attention on AI apps on X sexualising women

Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on Friday urged the government to pay urgent attention to the rising incidents of AI apps, especially on Elon Musk-led social media platform X, sexualising women.

In a letter to IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, she asked for “guardrails” to be implemented on AI chatbots like Grok to make social media platforms “a safe space for women”. She also urged better education of men, from an early age, to not become sick perverts.

“Have sought urgent attention and intervention of the IT Minister to take the issue of increasing incidents of AI apps being prompted to sexualise and undress women by unauthorised use of their images on social media,” Chaturvedi shared in a post on social media platform X.

“There have to be guardrails put in place by features such as Grok that do not violate women’s dignity; big tech firms need to take the onus. And I wish men indulging in such behaviour were educated better at their homes & schools so as to not become such sick perverts in their adulthood,” she added.

In the letter posted on X, the Shiv Sena (UBT) MP called out on an emerging trend on social media, especially on X, where men with fake accounts are misusing the AI Grok feature to post women's photos and pushing out prompts to Grok to minimise their clothing and sexualise them.

“It is not just limited to sharing photos through fake accounts but are also targeting women who post their own photos,” she said.