2025 to 2026
Counting what an AI image tool was asked to do
Women were posting photos on X and, within minutes, other users were tagging Grok to strip them. It was happening at scale, and nobody was counting it.
I decided the most useful thing I could do was count, carefully, and publish the data so anyone could check it. Between June 2025 and January 2026 I documented 565+ requests to Grok for nonconsensual intimate images.
I released the dataset openly and wrote a Guardian column on what the law was missing. Regulators in six jurisdictions responded. The dataset stays public, and I still use it to argue that platforms should have to prove their systems prevent harm.
