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

Digg Launches Its New Reddit Rival To the Public https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/01/14/233241/digg-launches-its-new-reddit-rival-to-the-public?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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Digg, an Early Social and News Site, Officially Relaunches

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Digg Launches Its New Reddit Rival To the Public

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Digg is back from the grave (again) and taking on Reddit: How to try the Digg beta

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Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public

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Parents can now set limits on YouTube Shorts for teen accounts

mashable - YouTube launches new safety features for teen accounts, including screen time controls for Shorts and age-appropriate algorithm for recommendations.

#mobile #social #youtube #ux #mentalhealth #media #contentmoderation #safety #digitalprivacy

YouTube Adds Parental Controls To Limit Shorts For Teen Accounts

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Your teen’s YouTube Shorts scrolling can now have a hard cap

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YouTube launches strict Shorts limits to curb teen screen addiction

YouTube adds more parental controls including blocking Shorts

7 wks / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

Parents can now set limits on YouTube Shorts for teen accounts

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Parents can put a time limit on YouTube Shorts scrolling

7 wks / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

YouTube adds more parental controls, including a way to block teens from watching Shorts

7 wks / engadget / Kris Holt

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…

#ai #streaming #aiethics #genai #culture #music #community #media #contentmoderation #copyright

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

7 wks / mobilesyrup / Bradly Shankar

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

7 wks / theverge / Lauren Feiner

Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

7 wks / arstechnica / Benj Edwards

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.

#ai #techpolicy #aiethics #genai #law #contentmoderation #xai #elonmusk #grokai #california

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Global regulatory & advocacy (9)
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California probes

California Opens xAI Investigation Over Grok's Deepfake Flood

7 wks / implicator / Maria Garcia

California to investigate xAI over Grok chatbot images, officials say

7 wks / reddit / /u/ddx-me

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

7 wks / techxplore

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

7 wks / nytimes / Kate Conger

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

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

7 wks / engadget / Will Shanklin

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

7 wks / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger

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

7 wks / reddit / /u/sksarkpoes3

Platform policy clampdown

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

7 wks / nytimes / Ali Watkins

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

7 wks / nytimes / Ali Watkins

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

7 wks / techspot

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

7 wks / appleinsider

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

7 wks / siliconrepublic / Ann O’Dea

Musk rushes to fix disgusting Grok replies

7 wks / news.com.au

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

7 wks / medianama / Prabhanu Kumar Das

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

7 wks / go

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

7 wks / mashable

X Tightens Grok Image Generation Following International Backlash

7 wks / decrypt / Jason Nelson

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

7 wks / scmp

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

7 wks / cnbc

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

7 wks / theverge / Jay Peters

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

7 wks / bbc

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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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

7 wks / slashdot / BeauHD

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

7 wks / engadget / Ian Carlos Campbell

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

7 wks / theverge / Lauren Feiner

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

X could face UK ban over deepfakes, minister says

7 wks / reddit / /u/Logical_Welder3467

Google removes AI health summaries after investigation finds dangerous flaws

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#ai #techpolicy #digitalhealth #google #aiethics #genai #health #alphabet #contentmoderation #safety

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

7 wks / arstechnica / Benj Edwards

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

7 wks / thurrott / Laurent Giret

550,000 accounts gone: Meta’s first report on Australia’s social media ban

Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Meta Platforms Inc. has deactivated nearly 550,000 accounts in Australia to comply with the nation’s new social media ban for users under 16, the company announced on Medium. This action includes 330,000 Instagram accounts, 173,000 Facebook accounts, and …

#techpolicy #meta #australia #law #facebook #contentmoderation #instagram #safety #regulation

Meta Confirms 550,000 Accounts Deactivated in First Week of Australia Social Media Ban

Meta shuts down half a million accounts under Australia's under-16 ban and urges the government to end it

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550,000 accounts gone: Meta’s first report on Australia’s social media ban

7 wks / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Meta closes 550,000 accounts to comply with Australia's kids social media ban

7 wks / engadget / Steve Dent

Meta urges Australia to rethink under-16 social media ban after blocking over 500,000 accounts

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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

Crisis Overview & Analysis (2)
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

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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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UK probes X over Grok CSAM scandal; Elon Musk cries censorship arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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Elon Musk’s X Under UK Investigation Over Grok’s Sexualized A.I. Images www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/w...

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Elon Musk’s X Under UK Investigation Over Grok’s Sexualized A.I. Images www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/w...

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Ursula von der Leyen has blasted Elon Musk’s platform X over the spread of sexually explicit deepfakes created using its AI chatbot Grok.

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‘Unthinkable behavior’: EU’s Von der Leyen slams Musk’s AI for undressing photos of women www.politico.eu/article/euro...

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‘Unthinkable behavior’: Von der Leyen slams Musk’s AI for undressing photos of women #EuropeanUnion https://www.politico.eu/article/european-commission-ursula-von-der-leyen-grok-deepfake-nude-elon-musk-ai-x/

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Google pulls AI overviews for some medical searches

Terrence O’Brien / theverge - Earlier this month, The Guardian published an investigation that showed Google was serving up misleading and outright false information via its AI overviews in response to certain medical inquiries. Now those results appear to have been removed. According…

#ai #techpolicy #digitalhealth #google #aiethics #genai #health #alphabet #contentmoderation

Google Disables Medical AI Overviews After Safety Investigation Reveals Dangerous Advice

Google removes AI Overviews from some medical searches after experts warn of risks to users' health

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Google removes AI Overviews for some health queries

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Google Scales Back AI Search Summaries Following Health Risk Backlash

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This follows an investigation by the Guardian that found Google AI Overviews offering misleading information in response to some health-related queries.

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What X should be doing with Grok but is instead doing the exact opposite ... "Google removes AI Overviews for certain medical queries" techcrunch.com/2026/01/11/g...

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Google pulls AI overviews for some medical searches

7 wks / theverge / Terrence O’Brien

Google removes AI Overviews for certain medical queries

7 wks / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk

7 wks / reddit / /u/HellYeahDamnWrite

Elon Musk Says X to Make Its Algorithm Open Source in Seven Days

Vincent Lee / bloomberg - Social media platform X will open its new algorithm to the public in seven days, Elon Musk said on Saturday, including the code used to decide what posts and advertisements are recommended to users.

#software #opensource #techpolicy #aiethics #media #censorship #contentmoderation #elonmusk #algorithm

Musk vows to open source X algorithm in 7 days amid EU scrutiny

7 wks / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Musk Says X Will Open Source Its New Algorithm

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Elon Musk promises to open-source X's algorithm in the next few days

7 wks / techspot

Elon Musk to open source X algorithm in 7 days amid global scrutiny

7 wks / scmp

Elon Musk: X's New Algorithm Will Be Made Open Source in Seven Days

7 wks / slashdot / EditorDavid

Elon Musk says X's new algorithm will be made open source next week

7 wks / engadget / Cheyenne MacDonald

Musk says he’s going to open-source the new X algorithm next week

7 wks / theverge / Terrence O’Brien

Elon Musk Says In One Week He Will Fully Reveal Why Your X Timeline Is… Like That

7 wks / gizmodo / Mike Pearl

Elon Musk Says X to Make Its Algorithm Open Source in Seven Days

7 wks / bloomberg / Vincent Lee

Indonesia blocks Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes

Anthony Ha / techcrunch - Indonesian officials said Saturday that they are temporarily blocking access to xAI’s chatbot Grok.

#techpolicy #aiethics #genai #government #asia #censorship #contentmoderation #xai #grokai #digitalprivacy

Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok over sexualized deepfakes

Grok Limits Image Generation On X To Premium Users, But Use For Non-Consensual Deepfakes Still Widespread

7 wks / medianama / Prabhanu Kumar Das

Musk’s Grok blocked by Indonesia, Malaysia over sexualized images in world first

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Malaysia, Indonesia become first to block Musk's Grok over AI deepfakes

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It begins. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/m...

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Malaysia, Indonesia become first to block Musk’s Grok over AI deepfakes

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Malaysia and Indonesia block Elon Musk's Grok due to obscene, non-consensual content

7 wks / cnbc

‘The Humiliation Is the Point’: Women Speak Out Over Sexualized Grok Images

7 wks / reddit / /u/Disastrous_Award_789

Malaysia and Indonesia block X over failure to curb deepfake smut

7 wks / reddit / /u/Logical_Welder3467

Malaysia and Indonesia block Musk's Grok over sexually explicit deepfakes

7 wks / bbc

Malaysia and Indonesia block X over failure to curb deepfake smut

7 wks / theregister / Simon Sharwood

Epic Games CEO Defends Grok AI After It's Used To Create Illegal Child Abuse Content And Deepfakes

7 wks / reddit / /u/PeanutCheeseBar

U.S. Senators Ask Cook and Pichai to Remove X and Grok From App Store and Play Store

7 wks / senate / John Gruber

Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok access, UK threatens ban as explicit deepfake problem grows

7 wks / mashable

Grok Deepfaked Renée Nicole Good’s Body Into a Bikini

7 wks / reddit / /u/Salt-Harvester

UK, Canada and Australia in talks to ban X over explicit Grok AI trend

7 wks / reddit / /u/Well_Socialized

Musk’s Grok AI Blocked in Indonesia, Malaysia Over Sexual Images

7 wks / bloomberg / Soraya PermatasariRam Anand

Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What's on X

7 wks / reddit / /u/Well_Socialized

Indonesia Blocks Elon Musk’s Grok AI For Explicit Deepfake Abuse

Indonesian officials said Saturday that they are temporarily blocking access to xAI’s chatbot Grok.

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Indonesia has the balls. Does anyone else? gizmodo.com/indonesia-re...

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Indonesia blocks Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes

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Indonesia blocks Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes

7 wks / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

The Fourth Most Populous Country in the World Just Reportedly Blocked Grok

7 wks / gizmodo / Mike Pearl

X’s half-assed attempt to paywall Grok doesn’t block free image editing

7 wks / reddit / /u/mepper

Indonesia temporarily blocks access to Grok over sexualised images

1 month / reddit / /u/moeka_8962

Italy Fines Cloudflare 14 Million Euros For Refusing To Filter Pirate Sites On Public 1.1.1.1 DNS

BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Italy's communications regulator AGCOM imposed a record-breaking 14.2 million-euro fine on Cloudflare after the company failed to implement the required piracy blocking measures. Cloudflare argued tha…

#techpolicy #government #internet #europe #law #censorship #contentmoderation #cloudflare #regulation #copyright

Italy Fines Cloudflare 14 Million Euros For Refusing To Filter Pirate Sites On Public 1.1.1.1 DNS

1 month / slashdot / BeauHD

Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS

1 month / arstechnica / Jon Brodkin

Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines

1 month / ycombinator

Italy Fines Cloudflare €14 Million for Refusing to Filter Pirate Sites on Public 1.1.1.1 DNS

1 month / reddit / /u/CandidAd9457

The U.S. government is punting on Grok’s undressing issue

Rebecca Heilweil / fastcompany - Grok’s digital undressing scandal is horrifying. In recent days, countless women, including the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, have found AI-generated and nonconsensual sexual images of themselves propagating across the web. According to one analy…

#ai #techpolicy #aiethics #genai #business #contentmoderation #xai #elonmusk #grokai #digitalprivacy

Deepfake Sexual Abuse Outcry (4)
Monetization and Paywall Tactics (8)
Other Scandals and Technical Woes (5)
Regulatory and Political Backlash (14)
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Deepfake Sexual Abuse Outcry

Why Elon Musk is laughing off Grok’s flood of deepfake AI porn

7 wks / fastcompany / Jay Willis

Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Sarees

1 month / wired / Kat Tenbarge

The latest on Grok’s gross AI deepfakes problem

1 month / theverge / Verge Staff

Elon Musk's Grok Faces Backlash Over Nonconsensual AI-Altered Images

1 month / cnet / Gael Cooper

Monetization and Paywall Tactics

X Restricts Grok's Image Generation to Paid Users After Global Backlash

1 month / reddit / /u/i-drake

Elon Musk Moves to Monetize Grok Deepfake Abuse, UK Calls It Insulting

1 month / gizmodo / Bruce Gil

X’s half-assed attempt to paywall Grok doesn’t block free image editing

1 month / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger

Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery

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

1 month / wired / Matt Burgess

No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature

Grok image generation is now paywalled on X amid AI "undressing" deepfake controversy

1 month / techspot

Limiting Grok AI image edits to paid users 'insulting' to victims, says UK Govt.

1 month / reddit / /u/Negative_Round_8813

Other Scandals and Technical Woes

Just like its dad, Grok keeps failing up

7 wks / qz / Shannon Carroll

Grok Is In Massive Trouble

1 month / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

Why AI could mark the end of Big Tech's invincibility

1 month / semafor / Reed Albergotti

AI-coded malware arrives on the Mac through fake Grok AI app

1 month / appleinsider

The Grok Disaster Isn't An Anomaly. It Follows Warnings That Were Ignored.

1 month / techpolicy

Regulatory and Political Backlash

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Blocked in Indonesia Over Sexualized Content

7 wks / bloomberg / Soraya Permatasari

‘Abhorrent’: PM slams Elon Musk’s Grok

1 month / news.com.au

X could be banned in UK amid sexualised AI images concerns

1 month / reddit / /u/PaiDuck

Is Apple’s ‘Safe’ App Store a Myth? Senators Want X Booted Over Grok Deepfakes

1 month / idropnews / Jesse Hollington

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards / X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?

1 month / reddit / /u/MarvelsGrantMan136

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

1 month / theverge / Elizabeth Lopatto

Grok and X should be suspended from Apple, Google app stores, Democratic senators say

1 month / cnbc

Senators urged Apple and Google to remove X and Grok from app stores over sexual deepfakes

US Senators from the Democratic Party Urge Apple and Google to Remove X and Grok from App Stores Following Grok Generating Illegal Sexual Images at Scale

1 month / reddit / /u/CandidAd9457

Senators tell Apple to remove X & Grok from App Store because of AI-generated child porn

1 month / appleinsider

U.S. Senators Ask Apple and Google to Remove X and Grok Apps Over Sexualized Image Generation

1 month / macrumors / Eric Slivka

The U.S. government is punting on Grok’s undressing issue

1 month / fastcompany / Rebecca Heilweil

Democrats ask Apple and Google to remove X’s undressing bot from their app stores / Grok’s nonconsensual deepfakes violate the app stores’ terms of service, the senators argue.

1 month / reddit / /u/MarvelsGrantMan136

Democrats ask Apple and Google to remove X’s undressing bot from their app stores

1 month / theverge / Lauren Feiner

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Elon Musk needed three years to transform Twitter from maybe the world’s most important news source and a vital tool for real-world change into a weird right-wing AI slop machine generating on-demand bespoke nonconsensual porn. A real innovator in the spa

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A substantial number of AI images generated or edited with Grok are targeting women in religious and cultural clothing. www.wired.com/story/grok-i...

New from @kattenbarge.bsky.social: X influencers are using Grok to unveil Muslim women in hijabs and show them being beaten by men. Women in sarees are also being stripped: www.wired.com/story/grok-i...

1 month / bsky / @manishakrishnan.bsky.social / manishakrishnan.bsky.social

www.theverge.com/news/859715/...

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Mosyle has identified a macOS malware campaign that uses generative AI-assisted code and spreads through a fake AI app download.

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The message also includes a link pushing people toward the social media platform’s $395 annual subscription tier. In one test of the system requesting Grok create an image of a tree, the system returned the same message.

The apparent change comes after days of growing outrage against and scrutiny of Musk’s X and xAI, the company behind the Grok chatbot. www.wired.com/story/x-didn...

The companies face an increasing number of investigations from regulators around the world over the creation of nonconsensual explicit imagery and alleged sexual images of children.

Neither X nor xAI, the Musk-owned company behind Grok, has confirmed that it has made image generation and editing a paid-only feature. An X spokesperson acknowledged WIRED’s inquiry but did not provide comment ahead of publication. Read the full story:

I would much rather have RAM than an AutoHarass Gold subscription www.wired.com/story/x-didn...

1 month / bsky / @subzerofrog.bsky.social / subzerofrog.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/x-didn... Seriously!

1 month / bsky / @beavington.bsky.social / beavington.bsky.social

Elon Musk's Grok AI image editing limited to paid users after deepfakes

bbc - It comes after government urged Ofcom to use all its powers – up to and including an effective ban – against X.

#ai #techpolicy #aiethics #genai #censorship #contentmoderation #xai #elonmusk #grokai #digitalprivacy

Government, regulatory scrutiny intensifies (4)
Monetization measures restrict free access (11)
Other analysis (1)
Sexual deepfakes and abuse scandals (8)
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Government, regulatory scrutiny intensifies

Canada’s AI minister condemns deepfake sexual abuse amid X nude images controversy

1 month / mobilesyrup / Bradly Shankar

EU and UK eye investigations into X over Grok’s lack of safeguards

1 month / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Grok told to cover up as UK weighs action over AI 'undressing'

1 month / theregister / Carly Page

Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot limits access to image generator that put women in bikinis

1 month / politico / Mathieu Pollet, Pieter Haeck

Monetization measures restrict free access

xAI Paywalls Grok Image Generation amid CSAM Outcry, UK Calls Move “Insulting”

1 month / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Grok says it has restricted image generation to subscribers after deepfake concerns. But has it?

1 month / mashable

Elon Musk makes Grok's sexualized AI images a 'premium service' for X subscribers

1 month / qz / Niamh Rowe

X restricts Grok’s image generation to paying subscribers only after drawing the world’s ire

1 month / techcrunch / Ram Iyer

Musk's Grok chatbot restricts image generation after global backlash to deepfakes

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Grok Restricts Image Generation After Backlash Over Explicit AI Imagery

1 month / eweek / eWEEK Staff

Grok turns off AI image generation for non-payers after nudes backlash

1 month / techxplore

Image editing on Grok limited on X after users prompt AI deepfakes

1 month / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

Elon Musk's Grok AI image editing limited to paid users after deepfakes

1 month / reddit / /u/F0urLeafCl0ver

Elon Musk's Grok AI image editing limited to paid users after deepfakes

1 month / bbc

Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery

1 month / reddit / /u/qwerty_1965

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Watch: Backlash against Musk's Grok AI explained

1 month / bbc

Sexual deepfakes and abuse scandals

How Elon Musk’s Grok spread sexual deepfakes and child exploitation images

1 month / ft

Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery

1 month / 404media / Samantha Cole

Grok, Elon Musk’s A.I., Is Generating Sexualized Images of Real People, Fueling Outrage

1 month / nytimes / Kate Conger and Lizzie Dearden

Elon Musk’s A.I. Is Generating Sexualized Images of Real People, Fueling Outrage

1 month / nytimes / Kate Conger,Lizzie Dearden

Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax

1 month / nytimes / nytimes

Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax

1 month / nytimes / Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Whitney Jones, Rachel Cohn, Vjeran Pavic, Katie McMurran, Dan Powell, Mar

Elon Musk’s xAI restricts Grok after outcry over sexualised images

1 month / ft

Musk’s Grok Limits Image Generation to Paid Users on X

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Honeypot trap set for any attorney general willing to use it: www.404media.co/x-premium-gr...

1 month / bsky / @danny.page / danny.page

In an attempt to push more people toward a paying subscription, Grok now refuses to generate images in replies. The paywall is pretty leaky, though.

1 month / bsky / @404media.co / 404media.co

the art of the possible

1 month / bsky / @mjgault.bsky.social / mjgault.bsky.social

After years of trying to push subscriptions with meaningless verifications and making X so toxic it bleeds users by the millions, Elon Musk might have found a way: by monetizing abuse at the source. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. @samleecole.bsky.soci

1 month / bsky / @404media.co / 404media.co

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has restricted access to a much-criticized deepfake generator on social media platform X following a surge of users creating nonconsensual nude images.

1 month / bsky / @politico.eu / politico.eu

According to #TheTwit restricting the access to the image generator that has created multiple sexual images to premium subscribers (that will cost you 8 bucks a month) will help “ensure responsible use“ while they “grow” the platform. I am curious as to

1 month / bsky / @porpentina2017.bsky.social / porpentina2017.bsky.social

Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?

John Gruber / wired - Caroline Haskins, writing for Wired (News+ link, in case Wired’s paywall blocks you): Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is being used to flood X withthousands of sexualized images of adults and apparentminors wearing minimal clothing. Some of this content appea…

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App Store policies fuel Grok/X scrutiny (3)
Child exploitation concerns in explicit AI images (6)
Governments and regulators push back on AI abuse (3)
Industry clamor, opinions, and calls for bans (8)
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App Store policies fuel Grok/X scrutiny

Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?

1 month / wired / John Gruber

Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?

Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?

1 month / wired / Caroline Haskins

Child exploitation concerns in explicit AI images

Australian Regulator Flags Grok in Rising AI Image Abuse Complaints

1 month / decrypt / Vismaya V

Grok generates bikini pics of children — UK, US oddly powerless

1 month / pivot-to-ai / David Gerard

UK Weighs Ban on Elon Musk’s X Over AI Abuse Image Scandal

1 month / parameter / Maxwell Mutuma

xAI Under Fire for Sexualized Child Photos on Grok

1 month / wsj / Georgia Wells

Grok assumes users seeking images of underage girls have “good intent”

1 month / reddit / /u/CackleRooster

Grok, the Child Porn Generator, Should Be Illegal

UK slams ‘insulting’ X move to paywall deepfake tool

Governments and regulators push back on AI abuse

1 month / politico / Isobel Hamilton, Emilio Casalicchio

Governments grapple with the flood of non-consensual nudity on X

1 month / reddit / /u/Logical_Welder3467

UK Prime Minister says ‘we will take action’ on Grok’s disgusting deepfakes

1 month / theverge / Emma Roth

Industry clamor, opinions, and calls for bans

No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature

1 month / theverge / Robert Hart

Opinion: In light of the Grok horror show, is it time we demand better?

1 month / siliconrepublic / Jonathan McCrea

The project that turned me into a Claude Code believer

1 month / platformer / Casey Newton

AI images and internet rumors spread confusion about ICE agent involved in shooting

1 month / npr / Geoff Brumfiel

Why isn't there a bigger Grok boycott?

Elon Musk’s X must be banned