US EditionUK Regulator Ofcom Launches Investigation Into Musk’s X Over Grok AI Sexual Deepfakes
Ofcom's probe will examine if X breached the Online Safety Act after Grok AI generated thousands of sexualised deepfake images of women and children, risking UK user safety.
- Ofcom has started an investigation into Elon Musk's X to determine whether it has failed to comply with online safety laws.
- Reports about Grok AI being used to create sexualized images of women and children have raised serious concerns, according to Ofcom.
- X announced it would remove all illegal content and suspend accounts related to these activities.
- UK law prohibits creating or sharing non-consensual intimate images and child sexual abuse material, including AI-generated sexual images.
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Britain To Ban Grok 'Nudify' Images. Here’s What We Know
The United Kingdom plans to bring into force a law that criminalizes the creation of non-consensual sexualized images, including through Grok, the chatbot within Elon Musk’s X application, following the app’s deepfake scandal of the last few weeks. “This means individuals are committing a criminal offence if they create—or seek to create—such content—including on X—and anyone who does this should expect to face the full extent of the law,” Techn…
Why X could face UK ban over Grok deepfake nudes
Ofcom has launched an investigation into X over reports that the social media platform’s AI chatbot Grok is generating deepfake nudes of people without their consent, as well as sexualised images of children.Under pressure to act, X last week limited access to Grok’s image generation tool to paid subscribers. This was criticised by Downing Street as merely turning “the creation of unlawful images into a premium service” but, said No. 10, it prov…
Political parties respond to spread of sexual deepfakes on X
New Zealand’s political parties have taken different approaches to the spread of harmful and sometimes illegal content on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. In recent days, X has been awash with AI-generated nude or sexual images of real people, including minors. Overseas, some countries have moved to block access to the website, while others including the United Kingdom have threatened regulatory intervention. Internal Affa…
Starmer can’t win his war on Musk
As any fule kno, politics cares about the abuse of women only when it’s politically expedient to do so. If Labour cared about women’s safety, for example, the party might make an explicit defence of women’s single-sex spaces. Or not be so keen to downplay the large-scale rape of working-class girls. No. What they care about is none of these things: it’s AI-generated bikini deepfakes. And not just any old bikini deepfakes, even though many AI pla…
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