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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kelvin Chan

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

Grok Deepfakes - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is preventing most users from generating or editing any images after a global backlash that erupted after it started spewing sexualized deepfakes of people.

The chatbot, which is accessed through Musk's social media platform X, has in the past few weeks been granting a wave of what researchers say are malicious user requests to modify images, including putting women in bikinis or in sexually explicit positions.

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