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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

Grok scandal highlights how AI industry is ‘too unconstrained’, tech pioneer says

The AI app Grok on the App Store on an iPhone, against a backdrop of search results displayed on the social media platform X on a laptop
X has announced that it is stopping its Grok AI tool from creating nonconsensual sexualised images of real people. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

The scandal over the flood of intimate images on Elon Musk’s X created non-consensually by its Grok AI tool has underlined how the artificial intelligence industry is “too unconstrained”, according to a pioneer of the technology.

Yoshua Bengio, a computer scientist described as one of the modern “godfathers of AI”, said tech companies were building systems without appropriate technical and societal guardrails.

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