Elon Musk, Grok and deepfakes
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On Jan. 9, xAI restricted image generation and editing on the X platform. The restriction appears only to apply when users tag Grok in response to an X post, but not when uploading an image directly to Grok.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s AI engine inside the Pentagon network.
Grok-generated nonconsensual images are flooding Elon Musk’s X, triggering international investigations and legal pressure.
International regulators are stepping up their pressure on Elon Musk’s X and his AI chatbot, Grok, over concerns around its creation of sexualized images of women and children without consent.
Indonesia, the world’s fourth-most-populous country, has banned X’s Grok chatbot. Meanwhile, politicians and regulators around the world are calling for action, including US senators.
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X Limits AI Image Editing to Paid Users After Grok Deepfake Controversy Spurs U.K. Ban Threat
Elon Musk's X restricts Grok image editing to subscribers after deepfake controversy, U.K. government urges Ofcom to use all powers against platform.
Italy's data protection authority on Thursday warned users and providers of artificial intelligence tools, including Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok, over the risk of generating deepfake images from real content without the consent of featured individuals.
All public image generation and editing is now limited to those who pay for X Premium. It may be designed to help track those who make illegal content.
The Northern Ireland assembly member Cara Hunter brands the Elon Musk-owned social media site a "disgrace".
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s AI engine inside the Pentagon network.
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot has limited some aspects of its Imagine image generation features to paid subscribers on X, days after international uproar over the AI tool “digitally undressing” people, including children,