{"id":355403,"date":"2026-01-06T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355403\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:00:08","slug":"government-demands-musks-x-deals-with-appalling-grok-ai-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355403\/","title":{"rendered":"Government demands Musk’s X deals with ‘appalling’ Grok AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, regulator Ofcom said<\/a> it had made “urgent contact” with Elon Musk’s company xAI and was investigating concerns Grok has been producing “undressed images” of people.<\/p>\n

The BBC has approached X for comment. <\/p>\n

On Sunday, the platform issued a warning to users, external<\/a> not to use Grok to generate illegal content including child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n

In her statement Kendall said: “Services and operators have a clear obligation to act appropriately. This is not about restricting freedom of speech but upholding the law.<\/p>\n

“We have made intimate image abuse and cyberflashing priority offences under the Online Safety Act – including where images are AI-generated. This means platforms must prevent such content from appearing online and act swiftly to remove it if it does.”<\/p>\n

Dr Daisy Dixon is one of the many female X users who recently started to see people take everyday pictures she had posted of herself on the platform and ask Grok to undress her or sexualise her. <\/p>\n

She told the BBC the pictures left her feeling “shocked”, “humiliated” and frightened for her safety.<\/p>\n

She added while she backed the call from the Technology Secretary for action, she still felt frustrated with X’s lack of accountability.<\/p>\n

“Myself and many other women on X continue to report the inappropriate AI images\/videos we are being sent daily, but X continues to reply that there has been no violation of X rules,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I just hope Kendall’s words turn into concrete enforcement soon \u2013 I don’t want to open my X app any more as I’m frightened about what I might see.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday, regulator Ofcom said it had made “urgent contact” with Elon Musk’s company xAI and was investigating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-355403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355403","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=355403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}