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AI consciousness is a red herring in the safety debate | Letters

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We should take AI risks seriously, but doing so requires conceptual clarity, says Prof Virginia Dignum. Plus letters from John Robinson and Eric SkidmoreThe concern expressed by Yoshua Bengio that advanced AI systems might one day resist being shut down deserves careful consideration (AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull […]

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Wave of Grok AI fake images of women and girls appalling, says UK minister

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Liz Kendall calls on X to ‘deal with this urgently’ while expert criticises ‘worrying slow’ government responseThe UK technology secretary has called a wave of images of women and children with their clothes digitally removed generated by Elon Musk’s Grok AI “appalling and unacceptable in decent society”.After thousands of intimate deepfakes circulated online, Liz Kendall

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Liz Kendall says Elon Musk’s X must urgently deal with ‘appalling’ sexualised deepfake content produced by Grok AI – UK politics live

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Science secretary says the deepfake content being produced on the platform is ‘unacceptable in decent society’In her Today programme interview this morning Kemi Badenoch tried to outflank Nigel Farage on net zero scepticism by claiming (wrongly) that she started talking out this before he did.Asked by the presenter, Nick Robinson, to give an example of

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Now Musk’s Grok chatbot is creating sexualised images of children. If the law won’t stop it, perhaps his investors will | Sophia Smith Galer

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The owner of X has grown used to acting with impunity – but this may be a red line for those with ‘conservative values’ who fund his adventures in free speechIt’s a sickening law of the internet that the first thing people will try to do with a new tool is strip women. Grok, X’s

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‘I felt violated’: Elon Musk’s AI chatbot crosses a line

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Grok still being used to digitally undress women and children, while US takes TikTok approach to dronesHello, and welcome to TechScape. Happy new year! I hope your 2026 is off to a great start. Today in tech, we are examining the output of Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, and the US’s ban on foreign drones.What

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AI images of Maduro capture reap millions of views on social media

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Lack of verified information and rapidly advanced AI tools make it difficult to separate fact from fiction on US attackMinutes after Donald Trump announced a “large-scale strike” against Venezuela early on Saturday morning, false and misleading AI-generated images began flooding social media. There were fake photos of Nicolás Maduro being escorted off a plane by

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Elon Musk’s Grok AI is used to digitally undress images of women and children

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The degrading pictures are being posted to X despite the platform pledging to suspend people who generate themDegrading images of children and women with their clothes digitally removed by Grok AI continue to be shared on Elon Musk’s X, despite the platform’s commitment to suspend users who generate them.After days of concern over use of

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Mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons ‘horrified’ at use of Grok to create fake sexualised images of her

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Exclusive: Ashley St Clair says supporters of X owner are using his AI tool to create a form of revenge pornThe mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons has said she felt “horrified and violated” after fans of the billionaire used his AI tool, Grok, to create fake sexualised images of her by manipulating real

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I’m watching myself on YouTube saying things I would never say. This is the deepfake menace we must confront | Yanis Varoufakis

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These inventions trigger rage, but also optimism. Maybe they will make people think more critically about debate and democracyIt was my blue shirt, a present from my sister-in-law, that gave it all away. It made me think of Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, the lowly bureaucrat in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novella The Double, a disconcerting study of the

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Reddit overtakes TikTok in UK thanks to search algorithms and gen Z

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Platform is now Britain’s fourth most visited social media site as users seek out human-generated contentReddit, the online discussion platform, has overtaken TikTok as Britain’s fourth most visited social media service, as search algorithms and gen Z have dramatically transformed its prominence.The platform has undergone huge growth over the last two years, with an 88%

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