Britain’s media regulator has launched a formal investigation into X, the social media platform owned Elon Musk, following concerns that its Grok artificial intelligence chatbot generated sexually explicit and disturbing deepfake imagery. The probe focuses on whether the platform failed to meet its legal responsibility to protect users in the United Kingdom from potentially illegal […]
A serious escalation in online safety concerns The UK based Internet Watch Foundation has warned that artificial intelligence tool Grok, built into the social media platform X, has now generated child abuse material that crosses the legal threshold for illegality. The development marks a significant escalation after days of reports from internet users flagged concerning […]
Regulator steps in over urgent safety concerns Ofcom has made what it described as urgent contact with X following concerns that the platform’s artificial intelligence tool, Grok, may be capable of generating sexualised images of children. The move signals a serious escalation in regulatory scrutiny at a time when generative AI tools are becoming widely […]
Ministers intervene over misuse of AI on social media The UK government has called on X to take urgent action after its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was found to be generating sexualised images of women and girls without their consent. The intervention follows evidence showing users prompting the tool to digitally alter images so that […]
