{"id":412598,"date":"2026-01-14T15:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/412598\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:47:08","slug":"x-to-change-ai-chatbot-after-outrage-over-sexual-deepfake-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/412598\/","title":{"rendered":"X to change AI chatbot after outrage over sexual deepfake images"},"content":{"rendered":"

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says Elon Musk’s X is acting to ensure full compliance with UK law after global outrage over its Grok chatbot’s ability to generate sexualised AI imagery.<\/p>\n

The apparent backdown by the social media platform comes days after the UK’s media regulator, Ofcom, announced it would launch a probe into the issue.<\/p>\n

“I have been informed this morning that X is acting to ensure full compliance with UK law,” Sir Keir told parliament, adding that the government would take further measures if needed.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the UK prime minister’s statement, Mr Musk posted on X that Grok will always comply with the law of the countries in which it operates.<\/p>\n

“When asked to generate images, [Grok] will refuse to produce anything illegal, as the operating principle for Grok is to obey the laws of any given country or state,” he said.\"Elon<\/p>\n

Elon Musk has previously described Grok as the “anti-woke” chatbot. (Reuters: Gonzalo Fuentes)<\/p>\n

The UK is among countries to express alarm at Grok’s image generation features, which allowed users to create sexually intimate deepfake images.<\/p>\n

After global outrage, X earlier this month announced it had restricted requests to undress people in images to only paying subscribers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In launching its investigation on Monday, local time, Ofcom said it was probing whether the platform was in violation of its duty to protect people in the UK from illegal content.<\/p>\n

Science and Technology Minister Liz Kendall said a new law making it an offence to create sexual deepfakes would come into force this week to tackle the images, which she called “weapons of abuse”.<\/p>\n

X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

The UK government was among several to express outrage at the feature.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Indonesia and Malaysia moved to block Grok within its borders<\/a>. The European Union, India and France have also expressed their concerns over the platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says Elon Musk’s X is acting to ensure full compliance with UK…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,36708,3120,10646,13635,123220,87507,105,15046],"class_list":["post-412598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-deepfake","tag-elon-musk","tag-grok","tag-liz-kendall","tag-ofcom","tag-porn","tag-technology","tag-uk-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}