5 h. ago Elon Musk hits out at 'fascist' Britain and posts AI image of Keir Starmer in a bikini as he claims banning X over Grok sexualised pictures would be 'censorship'

Elon Musk made a defiant response against Sir Keir Starmer who said he was leaving 'all options' on the table in response to deep fake pornography and child abuse images on X.

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7 h. ago Elon Musk says UK wants to suppress free speech as X faces possible ban

Ministers warn platform could be blocked after Grok AI used to create sexual images without consentElon Musk has accused the UK government of wanting to suppress free speech after ministers threatened fines and a possible ban for his social media site X after its AI tool, Grok, was used to make sexual images of women and children without their consent.The billionaire claimed Grok was the most downloaded app on the UK App Store on Friday night after ministers threatened to take action unless the function to create sexually harassing images was removed. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Musk claims outcry over Grok deepfakes used as an ‘excuse for censorship’

Governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned reports X’s AI chatbot Grok was creating sexualised images of people, including children

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11 h. ago Elon Musk posts AI image of Keir Starmer in a bikini as he claims banning X over Grok sexualised pictures would be 'censorship'

Elon Musk made a defiant response against Sir Keir Starmer who said he was leaving 'all options' on the table in response to deep fake pornography and child abuse images on X.

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12 h. ago Indonesia blocks Musk’s Grok chatbot due to risk of pornographic content

Move comes after governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned the AI tool and some have opened inquiries into sexualised contentIndonesia temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot on Saturday due to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the first country to deny access to the AI tool.The move comes after governments, researchers and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned and some have opened inquiries into sexualised content on the app. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago How Elon Musk’s Grok spread sexual deepfakes and child exploitation images

Billionaire’s xAI start-up lacks adequate safeguards, say experts, but many AI models are trained on troubling material

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26 h. ago X users generating sexual images of children as young as 13, says AI watchdog

X users are generating sexual images of children as young as 13, an AI watchdog has said.

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29 h. ago Should AI be banned from social media? Take our poll and have your say

As Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot faces an image abuse scandal, we ask Mirror readers whether the use of artificial intelligence, particularly those that can alter images, should be banned from social media

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31 h. ago Keir Starmer's UK Government blasts Elon Musk's 'insulting' changes to AI chatbot Grok deepfakes abilities

Some social media users have used the AI chatbot to generate sexualised images of people - including children - which has sparked a furious backlash against the Musk-owned company

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31 h. ago UK Government blasts 'insulting' changes to Elon Musk's Grok 'deepfakes' abilities

Celebs including Maya Jama have hit out against the Musk-owned chatbot after social media users used the AI chatbot to generate sexualised images of people - including children

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31 h. ago Changes to Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok 'insulting' to victims of misogyny, No 10 says

Downing Street has said it is 'abundantly clear that X needs to act and needs to act now'

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31 h. ago Grok is undressing women and children. Don’t expect the US to take action | Moira Donegan

Elon Musk’s reckless and degrading AI could be built differently. But Americans will have to speak upOver the past year, Elon Musk has made a series of protocol changes to Grok, the proprietary AI chatbot of his company xAI, which runs prominently on his social media site X, formerly Twitter. Many of these changes have been geared to make the bot more amenable to producing pornography. In August 2025, Grok launched an image generator, branded as Grok Imagine, which featured a service geared toward creating nude, suggestive, or sexually explicit content, including computer-generated pornographic images of real women. The feature, which was quickly used to create naked images of celebrities like Taylor Swift, also allowed users to create brief videos, complete with animations and sounds.Musk also rolled out AI girlfriends on the platform: animated personas – including female characters with exaggerated breasts and hips – that interacted in sexually explicit ways with users. One of the...

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32 h. ago Keir Starmer dismisses Elon Musk's changes to Grok as 'insulting' to victims amid row over AI

Downing Street reiterated the Prime Minister was leaving 'all options' on the table as regulator Ofcom looks into X and xAI, the firm which created the Grok AI tool.

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32 h. ago Musk's Grok chatbot restricts image generation after global backlash to sexualized images of children

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok has limited its image editing tool to paying users amid growing concerns about deepfakes on the platform.

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33 h. ago Musk's Grok chatbot restricts image generation after global backlash to sexualized deepfakes

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok has stopped allowing most users to generate or edit images after backlash over sexualized deepfakes

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34 h. ago Elon Musk’s Grok curbs AI image editing usage after deepfakes backlash

The tool is now limited to paying users.

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34 h. ago Elon Musk’s xAI restricts Grok after outcry over sexualised images

Start-up limits use of image generation system to paid users following spread of deepfakes and child sex abuse material

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36 h. ago Grok turns off image generation for most users after it removed clothing from children

X has stopped its AI system for generating images for most of its users – after it was used to generate abusive pictures of women and children for days.

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38 h. ago Grok AI: is it legal to produce or post undressed images of people without their consent?

Deluge of ‘nudified’ images on social media platform X raises questions about regulation of use of AI technologiesThe deluge of images of partly clothed women – stripped by the Grok AI tool – on Elon Musk’s X has raised further questions over regulation of the technology. Is it legal to produce these images without the subject’s consent? Should they be taken off X?In the UK alone there is some doubt over the answers to these queries. Social media regulation is a nascent area, let alone trying to control the deployment of artificial intelligence. There are laws in place to tackle the problem, such as the Online Safety Act, but the government has yet to introduce additional measures such as banning nudifying apps. Continue reading...

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49 h. ago The Guardian view on Ofcom versus Grok: chatbots cannot be allowed to undress children. | Editorial

A wave of humiliating sexualised imagery must prompt regulators and politicians to step upAn online trend involving asking Grok, the Elon Musk-owned chatbot, to undress photographs of women and girls and show them wearing bikinis has rightly sparked outrage in the UK and internationally. Earlier this week Liz Kendall, the science and technology secretary, described the proliferation of the digitally altered pictures, some of which are overtly sexualised or violent, as “unacceptable in decent society”. What happens next will depend on whether she and her colleagues are prepared to follow through on such remarks. The government’s generally enthusiastic approach to AI, and the growing role they see for it in public services, do not inspire confidence in their ability to confront such threats.In addition to the deluge of bikini images, the Internet Watch Foundation, a charity, has evidence that Grok Imagine (an AI tool that generates images and videos from prompts) has been used to crea...

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