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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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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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Weekly Review 9 January 2026

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Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):We should not give AI legal rights: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/30/ai-pull-plug-pioneer-technology-rightsWhile AI continues to guzzle energy, Alphabet is at least investing in clean electricity generation to power its data centres: https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2025/12/30/googles-power-play-what-the-4-75b-intersect-acquisition-means-for-the-future-of-ai-infrastructure/Some ways is which AI is likely to develop in 2026: https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/02/in-2026-ai-will-move-from-hype-to-pragmatism/The key features

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Grok assumes users seeking images of underage girls have “good intent”

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For weeks, xAI has faced backlash over undressing and sexualizing images of women and children generated by Grok. One researcher conducted a 24-hour analysis of the Grok account on X and estimated that the chatbot generated over 6,000 images an hour flagged as “sexually suggestive or nudifying,” Bloomberg reported. While the chatbot claimed that xAI

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Hundreds of nonconsensual AI images being created by Grok on X, data shows

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Sample of roughly 500 posts shows how frequently people are creating sexualized images with Elon Musk’s AI chatbotNew research that samples X users prompting Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok demonstrates how frequently people are creating sexualized images with it. Nearly three-quarters of posts collected and analyzed by a PhD researcher at Dublin’s Trinity College were

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