Starmer Blasts Elon Musk for 'Whipping Up Division' After Dying Teen Handcuffed and MP Targeted by Grok Rape AI

Starmer Blasts Elon Musk for 'Whipping Up Division' After Dying Teen Handcuffed and MP Targeted by Grok Rape AI

Keir Starmer accused Elon Musk of 'interfering in our politics' and 'trying to whip up division' on Thursday, as the prime minister met the family of murdered teenager Henry Nowak in Downing Street and backed a Labour MP taking legal action against Musk's Grok artificial intelligence tool. The highly charged posts by Musk on X about the killing of Nowak, an 18-year-old student from Southampton who was handcuffed by Hampshire police as he lay dyi…

Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy

MCTD’s Executive Director Gina Neff has joined more than 100 campaigners and organisations backing MP Jess Asato’s legal action against Elon Musk’s xAI after the platform generated sexually explicit deepfakes of her. Dozens of campaigners and organisations have backed a Labour MP’s “incredibly brave” legal action against Elon Musk’s xAI, whose Grok chatbot created fabricated images of her in a bikini. Jess Asato, the MP for Lowestoft in Suffolk,…

Musk’s xAI Faces UK Lawsuit Over Grok Images

British lawmaker Jess Asato has sued Elon Musk’s AI company xAI after its Grok chatbot allegedly generated fake sexualised images of her. The case, filed in London’s High Court, could become a major test of whether AI companies can face legal consequences when their tools create intimate or humiliating synthetic images of real people. British MP takes xAI to court over Grok images Jess Asato, a Labour MP in the UK, says Grok created fake images …