I agree to receive newsletters from Metro Sign Up This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Your information will be used in line with our Privacy Policy You have to watch while someone takes off your clothes – and for many of these sick individuals, that’s clearly part of the thrill. I can’t imagine something so violating, and I’ve found myself not just on porn sites, but also on websites like 4chan. After I was first told about my photos on that initial site, I immediately messaged the customer service team, with a link to the user profile, all his galleries and any others I could find. They apologised and immediately removed the content and that particular user. I found my photos taken from Instagram and uploaded on a porn site in 2021 (Picture: Sharan Dhaliwal) But I couldn’t help thinking about all the other users, galleries, images, comments. That user could just create a new profile. Part of me knew that there were still photos of me somewhere online, and someone was violating me. Despite having quit X, I still went on the site via a friend’s account and searched my name last week, out of fear that someone had done it to me, had given me the ‘Grok’ treatment. Part of me didn’t want to know, and part of me did, so I can report it to the police – X themselves would have done nothing. Luckily, I found nothing attached to my name, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. There are people out there, pleasuring themselves over non-consensual sexualised images of women, who watch it happen. But it’s not just women and sometimes men who are experiencing this – what’s really sickening is Grok is undressing children for users who are creating these prompts. Elon Musk has done little to stop it. In fact, his initial response was that banning Grok or X was ‘censorship’ and that it suppresses ‘free speech’. He said all this while posting an AI image of Prime Minister Keir Starmer in a bikini. Elon Musk has done little to stop it (Picture: Algi Febri Sugita/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock) And now this non-statement by X is just mouldy icing on a rotting cake. I am relieved I saw the sickness of X earlier and managed to escape it before it violated me. There was little of value left there – although it was a place I formed many friendships, back when it was called Twitter. I got freelance work, writing gigs and opportunities I wouldn’t have found elsewhere. But now, Twitter, X, Grok – it must be shot into the sun, bursting into flames like one of Musk’s misfiring rockets.