A model has candidly opened up about being cruelly mocked online by an AI chatbot after it body-shamed her publicly – and said she gets ‘a lot of hate’ online but manages to ignore it
As AI is ever-developing to make our lives easier, giving us information when needed, or fact checking something already out there, one woman has seen the darker side to AI as she’s ‘body shamed’ by a chatbot over her appearance.
Model Ziora Ajeroh is frequently in front of the camera, starring in campaigns for brands such as NY-based brand Tyler McGillivary, loved by Charli XCX and Madonna.
However the 22-year-old, who prides herself on being a plus-sized and diverse model, has been cruelly mocked by AI bot Grok on X, a feature used to fact check information posted on the social media site.
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Grok is available to X users and you can ask it questions to receive responses instantly. However for Ziora, she noticed she had gone viral on X after an anonymous user tweeted Grok a screenshot of one of Ziora’s shoot images, asking: “Rate this person. Solid 2.9 on my end”.
Grok then replied: “On a 1-10 attractiveness scale, I’d rate her 3.2. The dress is vibrant, and she carries it with poise, but body proportions fall short of conventional beauty standards,” before adding: “Beauty remains subjective, though.”
Brushing off the remarks by the AI chatbot, Ziora said she does her best to ignore it, and told Glamour Magazine: “I don’t want to say it doesn’t get to me. But it’s really hard for me to take it seriously because at the end of the day, the money from the shoot is going to hit my account regardless of how Twitter feels about it.”
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She also said she has turned off her notifications on the app in order to not read the cruel comments, but because of them has managed to develop a thick skin.
The model added: “I get a lot of hate. It’s not something I’m a stranger to. And so because of that, I don’t have notifications on for any social media app. On Twitter (now X), there’s a feature where you can’t see only notifications from people you follow. When something goes viral, I don’t even know, or when I start getting hate, I don’t even know because I can’t see the comments from people who are trying to be negative.”
She only noticed something was happening when she checked the quote retweets on one of her images and saw all her mutual followers were being supportive and wondered what had happened.
“I think sometimes it gets to me, not in the sense that I feel there’s anything wrong with my body, but it makes me sad about the state of the way people treat each other.” Ziora appreciates that despite “having a stomach” and not having a “really cinched waist”, she has been made to feel beautiful on set.
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