Elon Musk's Grok AI alters images of women to digitally remove their clothes
A Home Office spokesperson said it was legislating to ban nudification tools, and under a new criminal offence, anyone who supplied such tech would "face a prison sentence and substantial fines".
XAI, the company behind Grok, did not respond to the BBC's requests for comment, other than with an automatically-generated reply stating "legacy media lies".
The BBC has seen several examples of it undressing women to make them appear in bikinis without their consent, as well as putting them in sexual situations.
Elon Musk's social media platform X has provoked outrage after people used its AI chatbot Grok to alter photos of women by removing their clothing.
The regulator Ofcom said tech firms must "assess the risk" of people in the UK viewing illegal content on their platforms, but did not confirm whether it was currently investigating X or Grok in relation to AI images.
Grok is a free AI assistant - with some paid for premium features - which responds to X users' prompts when they tag it in a post.
It is often used to give reaction or more context to other posters' remarks, but people on X are also able to edit an uploaded image through its AI image editing feature.
It has been criticised for allowing users to generate photos and videos with nudity and sexualised content, and it was previously accused of making a sexually explicit clip of Taylor Swift.
Clare McGlynn, a law professor at Durham University, said X or Grok "could prevent these forms of abuse if they wanted to", adding they "appear to enjoy impunity".
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