Ashley St. Clair Sues Elon Musk’s xAI Over Grok Sexual Images

Wikipedia Signs AI Licensing Deals On Its 25th Birthday

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Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others

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Wikipedia unveils new AI licensing deals as it marks 25th birthday

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Wikipedia unveils new AI licensing deals as it marks 25th birthday

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Bandcamp bans music that heavily features generative AI

Bradly Shankar / mobilesyrup - Bandcamp is taking a big stand against AI in music. In a blog post, the company confirmed that it will ban music that is “generated wholly or in substantial part by AI.” It also prohibits the use of AI tools to impersonate artists or music styles. Bandcam…

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Bandcamp Bans AI Music

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Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

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not a lot of incentive to avoid pissing off google when google is choking off all of the internet in the interest of keeping people on google.com via gemini text! www.theverge.com/news/861897/...

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arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/b... Bandcamp announced that it no longer permits AI-generated music. “Music & audio that is generated wholly or substantially by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp,” they wrote. The new policy also prohibits “any use of AI to

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Bandcamp bans music that heavily features generative AI

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Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform | Indie music store says it wants fans to have confidence music was largely made by humans

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Bandcamp becomes the first major music platform to ban AI content

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The Atlantic, Penske, and Vox Media have all sued Google for antitrust violations

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Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

California Opens xAI Investigation Over Grok's Deepfake Flood

California Investigates Elon Musk’s xAI Over Sexualized Images Generated by Grok

Kate Conger / nytimes - The state will examine whether xAI, which owns the social media platform X and created the A.I. chatbot Grok, violated state law.

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California probes (10)
Global regulatory & advocacy (9)
Platform policy clampdown (16)
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California probes

7 wks / implicator / Maria Garcia

California to investigate xAI over Grok chatbot images, officials say

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California Attorney General Investigating xAI Over Grok’s Deepfakes

7 wks / wsj / Georgia Wells

Musk denies awareness of Grok sexual underage images as California AG launches probe

7 wks / techcrunch / Rebecca Bellan

California Launches Investigation Into Grok’s Nonconsensual Sexual Images

7 wks / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

California investigating Grok AI over lewd fake images

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California is investigating Grok over AI-generated CSAM and nonconsensual deepfakes

7 wks / engadget / Karissa Bell

California Investigates Elon Musk’s xAI Over Sexualized Images Generated by Grok

7 wks / nytimes / Kate Conger

California Investigates Elon Musk’s xAI Over Sexualized Images Generated by Grok

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Elon Musk's xAI probed by California DOJ over Grok's deepfake explicit images

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Global regulatory & advocacy

‘Get Grok Gone’: Advocacy groups demand Apple and Google block X from app stores

7 wks / theverge / Robert Hart

It’s not over, Europe’s regulators tell X

7 wks / politico / Eliza Gkritsi

Philippines to Join Indonesia, Malaysia in Blocking Musk’s Grok

7 wks / bloomberg / Cliff Harvey Venzon

Advocacy groups slam Apple and Google for hosting Grok and X apps

7 wks / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

28 advocacy groups call on Apple and Google to ban Grok, X over nonconsensual deepfakes

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Musk bows to pressure over Grok creating sexualised AI images

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Musk claims Grok made “literally zero” naked child sex images as probes begin

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Grok Generated 6,700 Nudifying Images Per Hour. Musk Says He Saw 'Literally Zero.

7 wks / implicator / Maria Garcia

Senate passes bill letting victims sue over Grok AI explicit images

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Platform policy clampdown

Elon Musk’s X Restricts Ability to Create Explicit Images With Grok

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Elon Musk’s X Restricts Ability to Create Explicit Images With Grok

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X says it has blocked Grok from editing images of real people into revealing clothing

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Grok now bans all undressing images -- where it's forced to

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Musk’s xAI bows to pressure and blocks Grok from ‘nudifying’ images

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Musk rushes to fix disgusting Grok replies

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X Announces Grok Can No Longer Edit Real People’s Images, But Website Still Allows It

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X says Grok, Musk's AI chatbot, is blocked from undressing images in places where it's illegal

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Grok blocks X users from creating images of real people in ‘revealing clothing’

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X Tightens Grok Image Generation Following International Backlash

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Musk’s Grok barred from undressing AI images after global backlash

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Musk's xAI limits Grok's ability to create sexualized images of real people on X after backlash

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X claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t

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X to stop Grok AI from undressing images of real people after backlash

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XAI Blocks Grok From Creating Sexualized Images of Real People

7 wks / bloomberg / Kurt Wagner

X says Grok will no longer edit images of real people into bikinis

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X is claiming it’s restricted the ability to generate explicit deepfakes with Grok, and plenty of media outlets are parroting it without checking. But it’s still easy to get Grok to generate the very same “undressing” photos causing this scandal in the f

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Le Monde publie de fausses nouvelles. www.theverge.com/news/862372/...

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California DOJ is the latest to initiate a formal investigation of xAI and its Grok issues - the AI chatbot and image generator enabled widespread creation and publication of deepfake NCII & CSAM (nonconsensual intimate images, and child sexual abuse

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British Police Used Microsoft Copilot for Faulty Report That Led to Ban on Soccer Team Fans

Ece Yildirim / gizmodo - Microsoft's AI assistant hallucinated a soccer match.

#ai #techpolicy #microsoft #aiethics #genai #uk #soccer #police #copilot

UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake

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Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI “hallucination” when banning football fans | Police finally come clean about botched use of AI tools

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British Police Used Microsoft Copilot for Faulty Report That Led to Ban on Soccer Team Fans

7 wks / gizmodo / Ece Yildirim

Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI “hallucination” when banning football fans

7 wks / arstechnica / Nate Anderson

UK Police Blame Microsoft Copilot for Intelligence Mistake

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UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake

7 wks / theverge / Tom Warren

Google’s Gemini AI will use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search, and YouTube

Jay Peters / theverge - Google's Gemini AI is getting what could prove to be a very big upgrade: To help answers from Gemini be more personalized, the company is going to let you connect the chatbot to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and your YouTube history to provide what Google…

#ai #dataprivacy #google #aiethics #genai #youtube #alphabet #assistant #digitalprivacy #gemini

Apple Integration: Gemini powers Siri advancements (7)
Gemini Personalization: AI learns from your data (24)
Other: Diverse Gemini ecosystem developments (5)
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Apple Integration: Gemini powers Siri advancements

Apple Picking Google Gemini to Power Siri Was About Buying Time

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3 Rumored Features Exclusive To Gemini-Powered Siri That Android Desperately Needs

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Google launches Personal Intelligence feature in Gemini app, challenging Apple Intelligence

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Apple May Use Customized Google Gemini

7 wks / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

Will Siri Really Be ‘Powered by Gemini’?

7 wks / idropnews / Jesse Hollington

Don't give Gemini your personal data, wait for Apple Intelligence-powered Siri

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Gemini just got scarily smart for you where Apple’s Siri dream failed

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Gemini Personalization: AI learns from your data

Google Wants Gemini to Know You Better Than You Know Yourself

7 wks / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Google's Personal Intelligence links Gmail, Photos and Search to Gemini

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Google launches Gemini Personal Intelligence in the U.S.

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Google introduces Personal Intelligence personalization tool for Gemini

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Google Integrates Gmail, YouTube, and Search Into Gemini

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Gemini can now access your photos and read your Gmail messages

7 wks / pocket-lint / Craig Donaldson

Google Launches Beta of ‘Personal Intelligence’, Connecting Gemini to Google Apps

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Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers

7 wks / theregister / Thomas Claburn

For AI to be truly useful, it needs to understand you. With Personal Intelligence, we’re beginning to solve this. With your permission, Gemini can now securely reason across your own data to answer questions that generic models simply can't - like suggest

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Alphabet(GOOG) Stock: Pushes Forward as Gemini Gains New Personal Intelligence Features Across Core Google Apps

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Google Enables AI Assistant Gemini to Draw Information From Emails and Photos

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Gemini can now scan your photos, email, and more to provide better answers | The feature will start with paid users only, and it’s off by default.

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Google Gemini’s ‘Personal Intelligence’ Pulls from Your Search and YouTube History

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Google Gemini Can Now Be Personalized Using Data From Google Apps

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Google taps its massive data advantage with new Gemini feature

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Google Gemini’s Most Useful Update Ever: It Finally Knows Who You Are

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Gemini can now scan your photos, email, and more to provide better answers

7 wks / arstechnica / Ryan Whitwam

Gemini's New Personal Intelligence Gives Android The Assistant iPhone Keeps Promising

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Gemini's New 'Personalized Intelligence' Uses Your Photos and Gmail to Customize Responses

7 wks / cnet / Katelyn Chedraoui

Gemini can now pull context the rest of your Google apps, if you let it

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Google Gemini Can Proactively Analyze Users’ Gmail, Photos, Searches

7 wks / bloomberg / Chris Welch

Google taps emails and YouTube history in push for personalised AI

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Gemini’s new beta feature provides proactive responses based on your photos, emails, and more

7 wks / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Google’s Gemini AI will use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search, and YouTube

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Other: Diverse Gemini ecosystem developments

Google plans to make Chrome for Android an agentic browser with Gemini

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Gemini is winning

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The Model Matters: I Tried Vibe Coding a Project With Different Gemini Models

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Google’s Trends Explore page gets new Gemini capabilities

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Gemini is winning

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Important announcement on the path towards Jarvis -> Google launches Gemini Personal Intelligence, linking to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and YouTube history to provide context-aware responses, for paid users

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Google Gemini is now asking users to let it train on their personal email and photos, and offering up bizarre reasons why this is meant to be good. It is not, and the timing of the news is suspicious.

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This is very much the interconnected extension of a Gemini Live aspiration for glasses etc. So it knows, sees, contextualizes. By getting all the data www.theverge.com/news/861576/...

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Every day a new way for AI to be more intrusive and unwanted.

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Personal Intelligence is off by default, as users have the option to choose if and when they want to connect their Google apps to Gemini.

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Senate passes Defiance Act for a second time to address Grok deepfakes

Ian Carlos Campbell / engadget - The Senate has passed the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE ) Act with unanimous consent, according to the bill’s co-sponsor Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL). The bill lets the subjects of nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfak…

#ai #techpolicy #aiethics #genai #politics #cybercrime #us #law #contentmoderation #digitalprivacy

After Grok's deepfake flood, Senate passes bill letting victims take creators to court

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Senate Passes a Bill That Would Let Nonconsensual Deepfake Victims Sue https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/01/13/2347221/senate-passes-a-bill-that-would-let-nonconsensual-deepfake-victims-sue?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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Senate Passes a Bill That Would Let Nonconsensual Deepfake Victims Sue - Slashdot #sentiment analysis #ai #artificial intelligence #government

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What can technology do to stop AI-generated sexualized images?

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Senate Passes a Bill That Would Let Nonconsensual Deepfake Victims Sue

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Senate passes Defiance Act for a second time to address Grok deepfakes

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Senate passes a bill that would let nonconsensual deepfake victims sue / It comes amid the global uproar over X’s mass AI undressing of users on its platform.

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Senate passes a bill that would let nonconsensual deepfake victims sue

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US Senate Unanimously Passes DEFIANCE Act as Grok Crisis Spurs Victim Protection Law

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X could face UK ban over deepfakes, minister says

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Pentagon is embracing Musk's Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry

The Associated Press / npr - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google's generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader push to feed as much of the military's data as possible…

#ai #cybersecurity #defensetech #google #aiethics #genai #government #us #elonmusk #grokai

Epistemic Weapon Debate (1)
Global Regulatory Backlash (3)
Pentagon AI Integration (8)
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Epistemic Weapon Debate

Grok is an Epistemic Weapon

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Global Regulatory Backlash

Governments around the world are considering bans on Grok’s app over AI sexual image scandal

7 wks / fastcompany / Chris Morris

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Gets Pentagon Access Despite Pattern of Failures and Regulatory Crackdowns

7 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Malaysia and Indonesia become the first countries to block Musk’s Grok over sexualized AI images

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Pentagon AI Integration

Hegseth wants to integrate Musk’s Grok AI into military networks this month

Pentagon Lays Out AI Strategy as It Plans for Future Space Missions

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‘Star Trek Real’: Hegseth Praises Grok for Allowing Users to Fight Wars

7 wks / gizmodo / Matt Novak

‘Not Woke’: Pentagon Embraces Elon Musk’s Grok AI Despite Global Backlash

7 wks / eweek / Joseph Chisom Ofonagoro

Pentagon is embracing Musk's Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry

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Pentagon is embracing Musk's Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry

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Pentagon is embracing Musk's Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry

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Pentagon is embracing Musk's Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry

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Google removes AI health summaries after investigation finds dangerous flaws

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Google Removes AI Health Summaries After Risky Medical Errors Exposed

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Google removes AI health summaries after investigation finds dangerous flaws

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Google removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds “dangerous” flaws

Google Turns Off Some AI Overviews Following Reports of “Dangerous” Medical Information

7 wks / thurrott / Laurent Giret

Jensen Huang claims that 'god AI' is a myth — Nvidia chief says 'doomer narrative' is 'extremely hurtful'

tomshardware - Nvidia's Jensen Huang says negative narratives around AI are "extremely hurtful," and that science fiction speculation isn't connected to reality.

#ai #innovation #ml #nvidia #gpu #aiethics #genai #business #technology #huang

Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI https://gizmodo.com/jensen-huang-is-begging-you-to-stop-being-so-negative-about-ai-2000709335

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Request denied. Anything else? #ai #aislop #aisucks

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Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI gizmodo.com/jensen-huang...

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Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI

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Jensen Huang claims that 'god AI' is a myth — Nvidia chief says 'doomer narrative' is 'extremely hurtful'

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NVIDIA’s CEO Says You Shouldn’t Talk Bad About AI, Saying That Those Fueling the “Doomer Narrative” Are Deeply Conflicted People

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Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage"

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Ofcom investigates Elon Musk's X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes

bbc - The watchdog said it had received reports of the platform's Grok AI chatbot creating undressed images of people.

#techpolicy #aiethics #genai #uk #contentmoderation #xai #elonmusk #grokai #safety #regulation

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Global & Legislative Responses (12)
Platform Content Management (3)
UK Watchdog Investigations (14)
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Crisis Overview & Analysis

What a new law and an investigation could mean for Grok AI deepfakes

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5 Things to Know About the Grok AI Deepfake Crisis and the Fallout for X

7 wks / eweek / Joseph Chisom Ofonagoro

Global & Legislative Responses

Grok’s Sexual Deepfakes Will Become Illegal in the UK This Week

7 wks / gizmodo / Matt Novak

Elon Musk’s NSFW Grok AI chatbot is forcing countries to take this extreme step

7 wks / fastcompany / Jennifer Mattson

Fix Grok or else, EU tech chief tells Elon Musk’s X

7 wks / politico / Pieter Haeck

Grok targeted in UK law over sexually-explicit AI image generation — UK will begin prosecuting illegal prompting this week

7 wks / tomshardware

UK pushes up a law criminalizing deepfake nudes in response to Grok

7 wks / theverge / Jay Peters

UK to bring into force law to tackle Grok AI deepfakes this week

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Grok ban: The nations considering blocking AI chatbot over nonconsensual sexual content

7 wks / mashable

Why Europe Could Block X Over Grok Scandal But Probably Won’t

7 wks / techpolicy

Malaysia and Indonesia are the first to block Grok following CSAM scandal

7 wks / engadget / Kris Holt

‘Unthinkable behavior’: Von der Leyen slams Musk’s AI for undressing photos of women

7 wks / politico / Ketrin Jochecová

Government will ‘support’ X ban should Ofcom recommend it

7 wks / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

UK, Canada and Australia might ban X over Grok deepfakes

7 wks / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Platform Content Management

X Didn't Fix Grok's 'Undressing' Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It

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Britain Points the Gun at Grok. Musk Calls It Censorship.

7 wks / implicator / Harkaram Grewal

X Removes Vulgar Content Generated By Grok After MeitY Notice

7 wks / inc42 / Anjali Jain

UK Watchdog Investigations

UK probes X over Grok CSAM scandal; Elon Musk cries censorship

7 wks / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger

UK launches formal investigation into X over ‘nudification’ of children images

7 wks / therecord

Elon Musk’s X Under UK Investigation Over Grok’s Sexualized A.I. Images

7 wks / nytimes / Adam Satariano

Elon Musk’s X Under UK Investigation Over Grok’s Sexualized A.I. Images

7 wks / nytimes / Adam Satariano

Ofcom launches X probe over Grok AI abuse concerns

7 wks / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

X Faces U.K. Probe Over Grok’s Sexualized Images

7 wks / wsj / Edith Hancock

UK regulator investigates X over Grok AI's role in generating sexualized deepfakes

7 wks / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Ofcom officially investigating X as Grok's nudify button stays switched on

7 wks / theregister / Connor Jones

UK regulator launches probe into Musk’s X over Grok’s ‘disgusting’ sexualised AI imagery

7 wks / scmp

Ofcom investigates Elon Musk's X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes

7 wks / bbc

Musk’s X Under Formal Probe by UK’s Ofcom After Grok Outcry

7 wks / bloomberg / Amy Thomson

Ofcom investigates X over Grok sexualised imagery

7 wks / advanced-television / Colin Mann

Elon Musk’s X probed by UK watchdog over Grok deepfakes

7 wks / politico / Mizy Clifton

UK’s Ofcom investigates X over Grok’s sexualised AI images of women and children

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Kontext: "Last month the European Commission imposed a €120 million fine on X for minor transparency infringements, drawing howls of outrage from the Trump administration."

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