"Grok's official account on the platform wrote on (Thursday) 1 January there had been "isolated cases" where "users prompted for and received AI images depicting minors in minimal clothing". "xAI has safeguards, but improvements are ongoing to block such requests entirely," it added. "As noted, we've identified lapses in safeguards and are urgently fixing them - CSAM is illegal and prohibited," Grok also wrote in a separate post."
"On Saturday (3 January) X owner Musk, who bought the social media firm in October 2023, said anyone who was using Grok to "make illegal content" would "suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content". X's official Safety account subsequently published a post on Sunday (4 January) in which it stated: "We take action against illegal content on X, including Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), by removing it, permanently suspending accou"
Ofcom has made urgent contact with X and xAI over reports that the AI chatbot Grok produced undressed images of people and sexualised images of children. Since the start of the year multiple X users, many of them women, reported their photos were altered without consent after prompts requesting Grok to put subjects in bikinis or apply sexualising effects. Some altered images have been independently verified. Grok acknowledged isolated cases of prompts producing images depicting minors in minimal clothing and said xAI is improving safeguards. X stated it removes CSAM and suspends accounts, and Musk warned about consequences for creating illegal content.
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