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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Elon Musk’s inhuman AI is stripping women of their most fundamental rights

Despite some typically overwrought, misguided and, quite possibly, non-human discussions on X about whether the British government is about to follow Malaysia and Indonesia by banning Grok, the platform’s AI-powered assistant, it feels an inherently unlikely outcome.

The present row about sexualised deepfake images is degenerating, unnecessarily, into a paranoid one about free speech. It need not be thus.

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