Stranger Things Actress, Nell Fisher, Victim of Grok AI Undressing

Among the women and minors targeted by sexualized AI-altered images on X was Nell Fisher, the 14-year-old actress known for playing Holly Wheeler on Netflix’s Stranger Things. 

Grok, which is  integrated into the social media platform X, has been under intense scrutiny since late December after users discovered they could bypass its safety guardrails to generate sexually explicit or sexualized images — including depictions involving minors. Fisher’s parents spoke out after a real photograph of their daughter taken when she was 12 years old was digitally altered using AI tools to depict her wearing a revealing banana-print bikini. The image circulated online without consent. 

While Musk’s platform doesn’t allow for full nudification, users quickly found ways to achieve the same effect,  asking for “the thinnest, most transparent tiny bikini”. Musk himself made fun of the situation, posting amused replies to digitally altered images of himself in a bikini. 

The controversy has prompted swift international action. Officials in the European Union have publicly stated that the generation and distribution of sexualized AI images — particularly those involving minors — may violate EU digital safety and child protection laws. In the United Kingdom, regulators have launched a formal probe into X under the Online Safety Act to determine whether the platform failed to adequately protect children from harmful AI-generated content. Meanwhile, Malaysia and Indonesia have taken some of the strongest steps so far, blocking access to Grok entirely after authorities concluded the tool was being repeatedly misused to create non-consensual and sexualized images, including of minors.