{"id":273558,"date":"2026-02-04T12:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/273558\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:58:08","slug":"verifying-gaza-footage-after-17-reported-killed-in-israeli-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/273558\/","title":{"rendered":"Verifying Gaza footage after 17 reported killed in Israeli strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts concerned after Grok chatbot \u2018un-redacts\u2019 images of children in Epstein filespublished at 12:01 GMT<\/p>\n<p>12:01 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-5adjh7-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/24d2d5d4-d458-4196-aaee-113790d4fafc.png.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Thomas Copeland<br \/>BBC Verify Live journalist<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">AI ethics experts have said they are deeply concerned after BBC Verify found repeated cases of X\u2019s AI chatbot Grok attempting to remove redactions from images of children released by the US Department of Justice as part of the Epstein files. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In one post viewed almost 24 millions times, Grok responds to a user request to \u201cunblur\u201d an image of a child in a swimming pool next to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These supposedly un-redacted faces made by Grok are not real, they are a prediction based on pictures the AI has been trained on, so they do not reveal the real child\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Gina Neff, Professor of Responsible AI at Queen Mary University said these images \u201cstill do serious damage to our information sphere\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cThey disrespect the real victims by suggesting their right to privacy is little more than an online game,\u201d Neff told BBC Verify. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tanya Goodin, CEO of EthicAI, added \u201cthis is inevitably what happens when technology is built with absolutely no safety guardrails\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019ve contacted X to ask why the platform is allowing Grok to respond to users\u2019 request to unblur the redacted images but haven\u2019t heard back. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A comparison of two images. The real image shows Epstein next to a swimming pool and a child with a large black rectangle of their face is next to him in the pool, an AI maniupuilated version has attempted to put a face to the child and this has been marked by the BBC as with a large red cross.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/517f9de3-65d5-4a42-8609-8c6962077924.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"1600\" height=\"862\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Experts concerned after Grok chatbot \u2018un-redacts\u2019 images of children in Epstein filespublished at 12:01 GMT 12:01 GMT Thomas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-273558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}