\n Elon Musk’s X must urgently deal with its AI being used to create fake sexualised images, says UK technology secretary\n <\/p>\n
Elon Musk’s social media site X must urgently deal with its artificial intelligence Grok being used to create fake sexualised images, the UK technology secretary Liz Kendall has said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It comes after UK regulator Ofcom made “urgent contact” with the platform over “serious concerns” its in-built artificial intelligence can be used to generate “undressed images of people and sexualised images of children”.<\/p>\n
Ms Kendall said: “What we have been seeing online in recent days has been absolutely appalling, and unacceptable in decent society.<\/p>\n
“No one should have to go through the ordeal of seeing intimate deepfakes of themselves online.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We cannot and will not allow the proliferation of these demeaning and degrading images, which are disproportionately aimed at women and girls.<\/p>\n
“X needs to deal with this urgently. It is absolutely right that Ofcom is looking into this as a matter of urgency and it has my full backing to take any enforcement action it deems necessary.”<\/p>\n
Since the start of the new year, X users – mainly women – have reported that accounts have used the artificial intelligence tool Grok to generate images of them without clothing.<\/p>\n
This is part of “spicy mode”, available to paid users, where AI creates images that are more suggestive or sexually explicit.<\/p>\n
There are also several cases where Grok has created sexualised images of children, according to analysis by news agency Reuters.<\/p>\n
Musk said in a post on Saturday that “anyone using Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content”.<\/p>\n
A statement shared on the social media platform’s official Safety account said: “We take action against illegal content on X, including Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), by removing it, permanently suspending accounts, and working with local governments and law enforcement as necessary.”<\/p>\n
The EU and US, and other countries, including India and Malaysia, have said they are investigating X over the images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk’s X must urgently deal with its AI being used to create fake sexualised images, says UK…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-355359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}