{"id":234248,"date":"2026-01-15T07:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/234248\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T07:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:56:09","slug":"elon-musks-x-to-block-grok-from-undressing-images-of-real-people-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/234248\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk’s X to block Grok from undressing images of real people"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain’s media regulator, Ofcom, said on Monday that it would investigate whether X had failed to comply with UK law over the sexual images<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If found to have broken the law, Ofcom could issue X with a fine of up to 10% of its worldwide revenue or \u00a318 million, whichever is greater.<\/p>\n

And if X does not comply, Ofcom could seek a court order to force internet service providers to block access to the site in the UK altogether.<\/p>\n

Sir Keir warned X could lose the “right to self regulate” amid a backlash over the AI images, but later in the week said he welcomed reports that X was taking action to address the issue.<\/p>\n

The prime minister said he would “take the necessary measures” and strengthen legislation if X failed to act.<\/p>\n

He had previously condemned the images created by the tool as “disgusting and shameful”, and said the decision to “turn this into a premium service is horrific”.<\/p>\n

X later said the changes to Grok would apply to “all users, including paid subscribers”.<\/p>\n

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said on Wednesday: “This material, which depicts women and children in nude and sexually explicit situations, has been used to harass people across the internet.”<\/p>\n

Policy researcher Riana Pfefferkorn said she is surprised X took so long to deploy the new Grok safeguards and that the editing features should have been removed as soon as the abuse began.<\/p>\n

Questions remain on how X will enforce its new policies, such as how the AI model will know if an image is of a real person and what actions it will take when users break the rules, said Pfefferkorn.<\/p>\n

Musk has not presented the company in a serious light either, she said, adding that it would help if he stopped “doing things like re-posting an AI image of Keir Starmer in a bikini.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain’s media regulator, Ofcom, said on Monday that it would investigate whether X had failed to comply with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-234248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}