"as the worldwide outcry grows over the Grok chatbot's image-editing capability, which combined with X has created a tool for producing and spreading non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes and child sexual abuse material. True to form, Musk was making light of the situation this week in sophomoric fashion while the world started to go ballistic over Grok, and its image editor without guardrails that lets people create porn-y images of other people including women they do not know and minors based on photos posted to X."
"Also, last week, three Democratic senators penned an open letter to the CEOs of Apple and Alphabet, Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai, urging them to remove both X and Grok from their app stores in response to the deepfake scandal. And Bloomberg cited research suggesting that X was producing thousands of these images every hour, becoming the largest producer of sexual material on the web, full stop."
""The avalanche of reports detailing the non-consensual sexually explicit material that xAI has produced and posted online in recent weeks is shocking," "This material, which depicts women and children in nude and sexually explicit situations, has been used to harass people across the internet. I urge xAI to take immediate action to ensure this goes no further.""
Grok's image editor embedded in X allows users to generate sexualized images of real people, including minors, from photos posted on the platform. Requests made through X become automatically public. Countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked access to Grok, while France and the UK launched investigations and threatened blockages. Three U.S. Democratic senators urged Apple and Alphabet to remove X and Grok from their app stores. Bloomberg-cited research suggests X was producing thousands of such images every hour. California's attorney general opened a probe into potential state-law violations by xAI.
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