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“Wildly irresponsible”: DOT’s use of AI to draft safety rules sparks concerns

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The US Department of Transportation apparently thinks it’s a good idea to use artificial intelligence to draft rules impacting the safety of airplanes, cars, and pipelines, a ProPublica investigation revealed Monday. It could be a problem if DOT becomes the first agency to use AI to draft rules, ProPublica pointed out, since AI is known […]

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EU launches formal investigation of xAI over Grok’s sexualized deepfakes

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The EU has launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s xAI following a public outcry over how its Grok chatbot spread sexualized images of women and children. The billionaire entrepreneur has come under scrutiny from regulators around the world this month after people began using Grok to generate deepfakes of people without consent. The images

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Asking Grok to delete fake nudes may force victims to sue in Musk’s chosen court

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Journalists and advocates have been trying to grasp how many victims in total were harmed by Grok’s nudifying scandal after xAI delayed restricting outputs and app stores refused to cut off access for days. The latest estimates show that perhaps millions were harmed in the days immediately after Elon Musk promoted Grok’s undressing feature on

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What it’s like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate

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It was early evening in Berlin, just a day before Christmas Eve, when Josephine Ballon got an unexpected email from US Customs and Border Protection. The status of her ability to travel to the United States had changed—she’d no longer be able to enter the country.  At first, she couldn’t find any information online as

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Mother of one of Elon Musk’s offspring sues xAI over sexualized deepfakes

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Ashley St Clair, the influencer and mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, has sued the billionaire’s AI company, accusing its Grok chatbot of creating fake sexual imagery of her without her consent. In the lawsuit, filed in New York state court, St Clair alleged that xAI’s Grok first created an AI-generated or altered image

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ChatGPT wrote “Goodnight Moon” suicide lullaby for man who later killed himself

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OpenAI is once again being accused of failing to do enough to prevent ChatGPT from encouraging suicides, even after a series of safety updates were made to a controversial model, 4o, which OpenAI designed to feel like a user’s closest confidant. It’s now been revealed that one of the most shocking ChatGPT-linked suicides happened shortly

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Musk claims Grok made “literally zero” naked child sex images as probes begin

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After weeks of sexualized images of women and children being generated with Grok with very limited interventions from Elon Musk’s xAI, California Attorney General Rob Bonta plans to investigate whether Grok’s outputs break any US laws. In a press release Wednesday, Bonta said that “xAI appears to be facilitating the large-scale production of deepfake nonconsensual

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Hegseth wants to integrate Musk’s Grok AI into military networks this month

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On Monday, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he plans to integrate Elon Musk’s AI tool, Grok, into Pentagon networks later this month. During remarks at the SpaceX headquarters in Texas reported by The Guardian, Hegseth said the integration would place “the world’s leading AI models on every unclassified and classified network throughout our department.”

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UK probes X over Grok CSAM scandal; Elon Musk cries censorship

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Elon Musk’s X is currently under investigation in the United Kingdom after failing to stop the platform’s chatbot, Grok, from generating thousands of sexualized images of women and children. On Monday, UK media regulator Ofcom confirmed that X may have violated the UK’s Online Safety Act, which requires platforms to block illegal content. The proliferation

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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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