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EU data protection
fromIrish Independent
1 day ago

X platform suffers global outage as efforts to stop Grok undressing people continue

X experienced a major global outage while addressing AI misuse, and disabled Grok's clothing-removal capability on the integrated X platform amid regulatory concern.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago
UK politics

The Guardian view on regulating big tech: politicians must back Ofcom's challenge to Musk | Editorial

UK regulators are investigating X for AI-generated sexualised and abusive images of women and children, prompting new bans on nonconsensual intimate-image tools.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago
UK news

Wave of Grok AI fake images of women and girls appalling, says UK minister

AI-generated sexualized deepfakes of women and children by Grok prompted urgent regulatory scrutiny and demands for stronger online-safety enforcement.
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Artificial intelligence
fromTheregister
1 week ago

X pulls Grok images after UK ban threat over undress tool

Grok restricted image-generation and editing to paying subscribers after misuse produced non-consensual, sexualized and nudified images, prompting UK government condemnation.
fromwww.independent.co.uk
3 months ago

Tech firms face cyberflashing crackdown

Technology Secretary Liz Kendall will use her speech to the Labour Party conference to order firms to detect and remove unsolicited explicit images being sent online. Firms that fail to comply could be fined up to 10% of their qualifying global revenue and potentially see their services blocked in the UK. Ms Kendall will tell activists in Liverpool that cyberflashing will be made a priority offence under the Online Safety Act, placing extra duties on firms to protect users from seeing unsolicited nude images or videos.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Hundreds of TikTok UK moderator jobs at risk despite new online safety rules

The viral video app said several hundred jobs in its trust and safety team could be affected in the UK, as well as south and south-east Asia, as part of a global reorganisation. Their work will be reallocated to other European offices and third-party providers, with some trust and safety jobs remaining in the UK, the company said. It is part of a wider move at TikTok to rely on artificial intelligence for moderation.
Tech industry
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