5 h. ago UK could ban Elon Musk's X for government use after deepfake 'disgrace'

The Government could stop using Elon Musk's X social media platform after its artificial intelligence chatbot was used to create sexualised deepfake images of kids

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12 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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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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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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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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5 d. ago Elon Musk’s AI chatbot blames safeguard ‘lapses’ over child sexual images

Grok generated sexually explicit images of minors in recent days that have been shared on social media platform X

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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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