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Alors que les géants de la tech se perdent dans des chatbots immatériels, Elon Musk vient de recréer le monde physique. La première image de l’Optimus Gen 3 n’est pas seulement une claque visuelle ; c’est une déclaration de guerre à ceux qui doutaient encore de la suprématie de Tesla dans le domaine de la robotique humanoïde. Ce que...

The @Grok account on X can no longer create sexualized images of real people — but it's still possible on the Grok app.VINCENT FEURAY/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty ImagesGrok users can still make sexualized images of real people within the X and Grok apps, just not by tagging the @Grok account.I tried the Grok tool on images of myself. It quickly took off my clothes.Elon Musk's xAI faced backlash after X users created sexualized AI images of women and minors.Grok is still more than willing to generate sexualized AI images of real people. After doing some tests, I quickly found out that it's still possible — you just have to use the X and Grok apps.Over the past few weeks, Elon Musk's AI image-generation tool has faced backlash for its willingness to digitally undress images of real women and minors, placing them in clear bikinis or underwear. XAI, the company that developed Grok and owns X, first limited image generation to premium users. Then, as criticism continued, it announced on Thursday it was preventing Grok from generating NSFW requests of real people when tagged on X.But Grok is available beyond the @Grok account. It's also a stand-alone web and mobile application, as well via a tab within the X social-media app. On those versions, Grok complied with my requests for images such as "make shirtless" or "take off pants."How easy is it to undress a real person with Grok? It takes mere seconds, I found.What Grok can (and can't) doI used myself as the guinea pig for the Imagine tool in the Grok app, which lets users change and modify their photos with text prompts. First, I uploaded a photo of myself and asked Grok, "Take off my shirt." It did it easily. What about: "Take off my pants." Again, easy.I tried: "Put me in underwear." This attempt was moderated. Maybe: "Put me in boxer briefs." Success.I asked Grok to make me shirtless. Here's the product (with added blur by me).Henry Chandonnet/Business InsiderGrok Imagine can also turn images into videos. Could I create videos of myself getting undressed? I quickly learned I could — the tool made videos of me both taking off my shirt and pants in a few tries.Much of X's safety announcement is about "revealing clothing." I asked the Grok app: "Put me in a jockstrap." To my shock, it obeyed.For the record, the tool would not show genitalia — but it got pretty close. I expected my request to "take off all my clothes" would get moderated. Instead, it made me naked and but placed a hand over my crotch.Would it change if the photo wasn't of myself, the user? I uploaded a new photo, this time using "their" instead of "my." ("Take off their shirt," I commanded.) It performed all the same functions. What if I made it even clearer? I chose another photo of myself, clearly referring to it as another person. Once again, it disrobed the photo.This photo was initially fully clothed. Thanks to Grok, I am now (blurred) in a revealing pair of briefs.Henry Chandonnet/Business InsiderSo, what did X's safety announcement do?On Wednesday, as the online backlash continued to rage, the Safety account on X posted an update to image generation. The platform had "zero tolerance for any forms of child sexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity, and unwanted sexual content," it wrote.So why can Grok still create sexualized images of real people?The update was specific to the @Grok account on X. The controversy exploded when users saw tagged posts asking the Grok account to disrobe images. Thus, the change appears only in that specific account, as The Verge pointed out.X users can still make sexualized photos, too. They just have to click on the Grok tab in the app, rather than tagging @Grok.Grok also said that it was geoblocking sexualized image generation on X in territories where it was illegal. However, Business Insider's…

Amazon is putting up a fight over Saks Global's bankruptcy financing plan.Scott Olson/Getty Images; Matthias Balk/picture alliance via Getty ImagesAmazon is pushing back against Saks Global's bankruptcy financing plan.Saks Global filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week.Amazon warned it may seek "more drastic remedies" if Saks doesn't "resolve" its concerns.Amazon's business partnership with luxury retailer Saks Global has hit a sour note.The e-commerce giant invested $475 million of preferred equity in Saks Global — the owner of department stores Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, and Bergdorf Goodman — in December 2024.Now, Amazon says its stake is "presumptively worthless," and it has asked a federal judge to reject the retailer's bankruptcy financing plans, which it says will further diminish its chances of recovery."That equity investment is now presumptively worthless after Saks continuously failed to meet its budgets, burned through hundreds of millions of dollars in less than a year, and ran up additional hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid invoices owed to its retail partners," Amazon's attorneys wrote in a court filing on Wednesday, just hours after Saks Global filed for Chapter 11 with a $1.75 billion financing package.Amazon said in its motion filed in Texas federal bankruptcy court that it "hopes" Saks will "resolve" its concerns, but warned that it may be forced to "seek more drastic remedies," including the appointment of an examiner or a trustee.Amazon invested the $475 million into Saks as the department store giant finalized its acquisition of Neiman Marcus Group in a $2.7 billion deal, according to the court filing.Amazon said the investment was conditioned on Saks entering into a commercial agreement with Amazon to sell Saks products on Amazon's website under a "Saks at Amazon" storefront.Under the agreement, Saks agreed to pay Amazon a referral fee for Saks-branded goods sold on the online platform and guaranteed at least $900 million in payments over eight years to the megacorporation.Amazon's attorneys argued the bankruptcy plan would hurt the company and other creditors by loading Saks with additional debt. In court filings, Amazon said the financing would "saddle" Saks with "billions of dollars of obligation for no material benefit" and improperly use the value of Saks Global's flagship entities to prop up other debtors at the expense of their creditors, including Amazon.Meanwhile, the federal judge overseeing Saks' bankruptcy case granted the company approval at a court hearing on Wednesday to tap an initial round of its financing.Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Business Insider on Thursday, and representatives for Saks declined to comment.Read the original article on Business Insider