This story was originally reported by Mariel Padilla of The 19th, and republished through Rewire News Group‘s partnership with The 19th News Network.

The social media platform X has been flooded with AI-generated sexualized images of women and children in recent weeks—months before a new law aiming to ban the spread of nonconsensual intimate imagery goes into effect.

Elon Musk, the owner of X, announced a new feature with a post on Christmas Eve encouraging users to try editing images and videos with Grok, the app’s chatbot. Then, a few weeks later, as the new year began, many women noticed something disturbing........

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