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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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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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No 10 condemns ‘insulting’ move by X to restrict Grok AI image tool

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Spokesperson says limiting access to paying subscribers just makes ability to generate unlawful images a premium serviceUK politics live – latest updatesDowning Street has condemned the move by X to restrict its AI image creation tool to paying subscribers as insulting, saying it simply made the ability to generate explicit and unlawful images a premium

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X response to Grok sexualised images scandal ‘insulting’ to victims of misogyny, says No 10 – UK politics live

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Image-creation function has been limited to paying subscribers after Elon Musk’s platform was threatened with fines and regulatory actionDowning Street has defended its decision to single out pubs for special help with the problems created by rising business rate costs.At the No 10 lobby briefing this morning, the PM’s spokesperson confirmed that a package of

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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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UK ministers considering leaving X amid concern over AI tool images

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Labour party chair says government having conversations about use of platform in light of sexualised Grok images UK politics live – latest updatesUK ministers are considering leaving X as a result of the controversy over the platform’s AI tool, which has been allowing users to generate digitally altered pictures of people – including children –

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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 AI: is it legal to produce or post undressed images of people without their consent?

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Deluge of ‘nudified’ images on social media platform X raises questions about regulation of use of AI technologiesThe deluge of images of partly clothed women – stripped by the Grok AI tool – on Elon Musk’s X has raised further questions over regulation of the technology. Is it legal to produce these images without the

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Software tackling deepfakes to be piloted for Scottish and Welsh elections

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Electoral Commission says tools to detect AI-generated content could be in place before campaigns beginElection officials are working “at speed” with the Home Office on a pilot project to combat the use of deepfakes to target candidates standing in this year’s Scottish and Welsh elections.Officials at the Electoral Commission in Scotland said they and the

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