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UK threatens action against X over sexualised AI images of women and children

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Government signals support for possible Ofcom intervention on Grok as scrutiny of X’s AI tool intensifiesBusiness live – latest updatesElon Musk’s X “is not doing enough to keep its customers safe online”, a minister has said, as the UK government prepares to outline possible action against the platform over the mass production of sexualised images […]

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Monday briefing: How Elon Musk’s Grok is being used as a tool for digital sexual abuse

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In today’s newsletter: The chatbot is being used to digitally undress photos of women and children. What can politicians actually do to stop it, and what does it say about our control of the internet?Good morning. Last week, the UK technology secretary, Liz Kendall, said: “We cannot and will not allow the proliferation of these

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‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viral

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The ‘put her in a bikini’ trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targetedLike thousands of women across the world, Evie, a 22-year-old photographer from Lincolnshire, woke up on New Year’s Day, looked at her phone and was alarmed to see that fully clothed

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Elon Musk says UK wants to suppress free speech as X faces possible ban

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Ministers warn platform could be blocked after Grok AI used to create sexual images without consentElon Musk has accused the UK government of wanting to suppress free speech after ministers threatened fines and a possible ban for his social media site X after its AI tool, Grok, was used to make sexual images of women

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Indonesia blocks Musk’s Grok chatbot due to risk of pornographic content

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Move comes after governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned the AI tool and some have opened inquiries into sexualised contentIndonesia temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot on Saturday due to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the first country to deny access to the AI tool.The move comes after governments, researchers

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Musk’s X ordered by UK government to tackle wave of indecent imagery or face ban

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Platform has restricted image creation on the Grok AI tool to paying subscribers, but victims and experts say this does not go far enoughElon Musk’s X has been ordered by the UK government to tackle a wave of indecent AI images or face a de facto ban, as an expert said the platform was no

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X’s half-assed attempt to paywall Grok doesn’t block free image editing

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Once again, people are taking Grok at its word, treating the chatbot as a company spokesperson without questioning what it says. On Friday morning, many outlets reported that X had blocked universal access to Grok’s image-editing features after the chatbot began prompting some users to pay $8 to use them. The messages are seemingly in

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Grok is undressing women and children. Don’t expect the US to take action | Moira Donegan

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Elon Musk’s reckless and degrading AI could be built differently. But Americans will have to speak upOver the past year, Elon Musk has made a series of protocol changes to Grok, the proprietary AI chatbot of his company xAI, which runs prominently on his social media site X, formerly Twitter. Many of these changes have

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Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery

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Editing function to be limited to paying subscribers after X threatened with fines and regulatory actionGrok, Elon Musk’s AI tool, has switched off its image creation function for the vast majority of users after a widespread outcry about its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery.The move comes after Musk was threatened with fines,

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Grok being used to create sexually violent videos featuring women, research finds

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AI tool also used to undress image of woman killed by ICE agent in US, says researchElon Musk’s AI tool Grok has been used to create sexually violent and explicit video content featuring women, according to new research, as the British prime minister added to condemnation of images it has created.Grok has also been used

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