10 h. ago Elon Musk declares Grok to be ‘on the side of angels’ amid X undressing scandal

AI chatbot is under fire for generating sexualized images of women, children and public figures without consent

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13 h. ago Elon Musk claims Grok is 'on the side of angels' as world's richest man faces backlash over X's AI chatbot

Musk said anyone using Grok to generate illegal content would ‘suffer the same consequences’ as if they uploaded it themselves

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23 h. ago Elon Musk’s xAI announces it has raised $20bn amid backlash over Grok deepfakes

AI company’s chatbot faces criticism over its generation of sexualized, nonconsensual images of women and girlsElon Musk’s artificial intelligence company has raised $20bn in its latest funding round, the startup announced Tuesday, even as its marquee chatbot Grok faces backlash over generating sexualized, nonconsensual images of women and underage girls.xAI’s Series E funding round featured big name investors, including Nvidia, Fidelity Management and Resource Company, Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, and Valor Equity Partners – the private investment firm of Musk’s longtime friend and former Doge member Antonio Gracias. The funding round exceeded its initial $15bn target, according to xAI’s press release. The company touted Grok’s image generation abilities in the announcement of its latest funding round Continue reading...

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28 h. ago ‘I feel violated and dehumanised after X’s Grok AI stripped me naked’

Women say ‘objectifying’ pictures are being created of them without their consent – and accuse tech companies like Elon Musk’s as well as the government of not doing enough to protect them

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28 h. ago Musk's AI chatbot faces global backlash over sexualized images of women and children

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is under fire for generating sexualized images of women and children without consent

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28 h. ago Wave of Grok AI fake images of women and girls appalling, says UK minister

Liz Kendall calls on X to ‘deal with this urgently’ while expert criticises ‘worryingly slow’ government responseThe UK technology secretary has called a wave of images of women and children with their clothes digitally removed generated by Elon Musk’s Grok AI “appalling and unacceptable in decent society”.After thousands of intimate deepfakes circulated online, Liz Kendall said X, Musk’s social media platform, needed to “deal with this urgently” and she backed the UK regulator Ofcom to “take any enforcement action it deems necessary”. Continue reading...

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30 h. ago Starmer's government orders Elon Musk stops AI bot Grok over lewd deepfakes of kids

Elon Musk’s social media platform X is under fire after its AI chatbot Grok was found to have generated sexualised deepfake images, including of children, prompting urgent calls from the government

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30 h. ago Now Musk’s Grok chatbot is creating sexualised images of children. If the law won’t stop it, perhaps his investors will | Sophia Smith Galer

The owner of X has grown used to acting with impunity – but this may be a red line for those with ‘conservative values’ who fund his adventures in free speechIt’s a sickening law of the internet that the first thing people will try to do with a new tool is strip women. Grok, X’s AI chatbot, has been used repeatedly by users in recent days to undress images of women and minors. The news outlet Reuters identified 102 requests in a 10-minute period last Friday from users to get Grok to edit people into bikinis, the majority of these targeting young women. Grok complied with at least 21 of them.There is no excuse for releasing exploitative tools on the internet when you are sitting on $10bn (£7.5bn) in cash. Every platform with AI integration (which now covers almost the entire internet) is planning for the same challenges; if you want to enable users to create images and even videos with generative AI, how do you do so without letting the same people cause harm? Tech companies spend mo...

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33 h. ago Abusive’ AI undressing trend is taking over X thanks to Elon Musk’s Grok, analysis reveals

Elon Musk’s Grok is undressing children as regulators scramble to crackdown on platform

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46 h. ago Elon Musk’s AI chatbot faces UK probes after ‘creating fake sexual images of women and children’

ELON Musk’s X is facing a UK probe after users asked its AI chatbot Grok to create sexual images of women and children.  UK media watchdog Ofcom has made “urgent contact” with X and its AI arm xAI to assess whether online safety laws have been breached.  The move follows evidence users could upload photos and ask...

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51 h. ago Elon Musk’s Grok AI is used to digitally undress images of women and children

The degrading pictures are being posted to X despite the platform pledging to suspend people who generate themDegrading images of children and women with their clothes digitally removed by Grok AI continue to be shared on Elon Musk’s X, despite the platform’s commitment to suspend users who generate them.After days of concern over use of the chatbot to alter photographs to create sexualised pictures of real women and children stripped to their underwear without their consent, the UK’s communication’s watchdog, Ofcom, said on Monday that it had made “urgent contact with X and xAI to understand what steps they have taken to comply with their legal duties to protect users in the UK”. Ofcom added that it would assess whether an investigation is necessary based on the company’s response. Continue reading...

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51 h. ago Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge

Degrading pictures being posted on Elon Musk’s site despite the platform pledging to suspend people who generate themDegrading images of children and women with their clothes digitally removed by Grok AI continue to be shared on Elon Musk’s X, despite the platform’s commitment to suspend users who generate them.After days of concern over use of the chatbot to alter photographs to create sexualised pictures of real women and children stripped to their underwear without their consent, the UK’s communication’s watchdog, Ofcom, said on Monday that it had made “urgent contact with X and xAI to understand what steps they have taken to comply with their legal duties to protect users in the UK”. Ofcom added that it would assess whether an investigation is necessary based on the company’s response. Continue reading...

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52 h. ago Mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons ‘horrified’ at use of Grok to create fake sexualised images of her

Exclusive: Ashley St Clair says supporters of X owner are using his AI tool to create a form of revenge pornThe mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons has said she felt “horrified and violated” after fans of the billionaire used his AI tool, Grok, to create fake sexualised images of her by manipulating real pictures.The writer and political strategist Ashley St Clair, who became estranged from Musk after the birth of their child in 2024, told the Guardian that supporters of the X owner were using the tool to create a form of revenge porn, and had even undressed a picture of her as a child. Continue reading...

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52 h. ago Ashley St Clair accuses Elon Musk’s Grok of generating photos of her undressing as a child

Conservative influencer who says she had a child with the Tesla and X boss called the experience ‘objectively horrifying’ and ‘illegal’

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4 d. ago Woman felt 'dehumanised' after Elon Musk's AI Grok was used to remove her clothing

A woman who was digitally undressed by Elon Musk's AI tool said she felt 'dehumanised' and 'reduced to a sexual stereotype'.

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5 d. ago Elon Musk's Grok AI bot digitally removes clothes from women with one left 'dehumanised'

Women are being stripped naked online as perverts use the AI chatbot Grok to turn innocent photos into X-rated content - putting Elon Musk's X under fire for not preventing the abuse

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5 d. ago Elon Musk’s Grok AI generates images of ‘minors in minimal clothing’

xAI says it is working to improve systems after lapses in safeguards led to wave of sexualized images this weekElon Musk’s chatbot Grok posted on Friday that lapses in safeguards had led it to generate “images depicting minors in minimal clothing” on social media platform X. The chatbot, a product of Musk’s company xAI, has been generating a wave of sexualized images throughout the week in response to user prompts.Screenshots shared by users on X showed Grok’s public media tab filled with such images. xAI said it was working to improve its systems to prevent future incidents. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago US military adds Elon Musk’s controversial Grok bot to its ‘AI arsenal’

The ‘anti-woke’ artificial intelligence chatbot called for a new Holocaust earlier this year

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3 w. ago Elon Musk teams with El Salvador to bring Grok chatbot to public schools

President Nayib Bukele entrusting chatbot known for calling itself ‘MechaHitler’ to create ‘AI-powered’ curriculaElon Musk is partnering with the government of El Salvador to bring his artificial intelligence company’s chatbot, Grok, to more than 1 million students across the country, according to a Thursday announcement by xAI. Over the next two years, the plan is to “deploy” the chatbot to more than 5,000 public schools in an “AI-powered education program”.xAI’s Grok is more known for referring to itself as “MechaHitler” and espousing far-right conspiracy theories than it is for public education. Over the past year, the chatbot has spewed various antisemitic content, decried “white genocide” and claimed Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Continue reading...

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