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\nThe button that received complaints, allowed users to modify any image on the platform — with some users deciding to partially or completely remove clothing from women or children in pictures
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Elon Musk’s Grok on Friday said it was scrambling to fix flaws in the artificial intelligence tool after users claimed it turned pictures of children or women into erotic images.<\/p>\n
“We’ve identified lapses in safeguards and are urgently fixing them,” Grok said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n
“CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) is illegal and prohibited.”<\/p>\n
Complaints of abuses began hitting X after an “edit image” button was rolled out on Grok in late December.<\/p>\n
The button allowed users to modify any image on the platform – with some users deciding to partially or completely remove clothing from women or children in pictures, according to complaints.<\/p>\n
Grok maker xAI, run by Musk, replied to an AFP query with a terse, automated response that said: “the mainstream media lies.”<\/p>\n
The Grok chatbot, however, did respond to an X user who queried it on the matter, after they said that a company in the United States could face criminal prosecution for knowingly facilitating or failing to prevent the creation or sharing of child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n
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Media outlets in India reported on Friday (US time) that government officials there are demanding X quickly provide them details of measures the company is taking to remove “obscene, nude, indecent, and sexually suggestive content” generated by Grok without the consent of those in such pictures.<\/p>\n
The public prosecutor’s office in Paris meanwhile expanded an investigation into X to include new accusations that Grok was being used for generating and disseminating child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n
The initial investigation against X was opened in July following reports that the social network’s algorithm was being manipulated for the purpose of foreign interference.<\/p>\n
Grok has been criticised in recent months for generating multiple controversial statements, from the war in Gaza and the India-Pakistan conflict to antisemitic remarks and spreading misinformation about a deadly shooting in Australia.<\/p>\n
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