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Starmer threatens to 'control' Grok if Elon Musk's X keeps creating sexual images
Sir Keir Starmer says UK will impose strict regulations on X’s Grok AI for generating sexualized images, with Ofcom investigating and fines up to £18 million possible.
- On Monday, Technology Secretary Liz Kendall announced the UK will enforce this week the Data Act criminalising non-consensual intimate images and banning companies supplying AI image tools.
- Grok's image feature, launched last year in July, has been used in recent weeks to create sexualised images of adults and children, including adding sexualised details like a 'donut glaze'.
- After contact on Friday, Ofcom announced it has opened a formal investigation into X over concerns related to Grok, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer urging full regulator action.
- The government will designate the offence as a priority in the Online Safety Act and Ofcom can seek fines up to 10% of worldwide revenue or £18 million and pursue court orders to block X.
- Ministers framed the images as 'weapons of abuse' disproportionately targeting women and girls and urged Ofcom not to take 'months and months' to conclude its probe, while Malaysia and Indonesia banned Grok and the EU Commission is investigating, though Elon Musk and xAI pushed back.
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