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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Peter Walker, Alexandra Topping and Kiran Stacey

No 10 condemns ‘insulting’ move by X to restrict Grok AI image tool

The AI app Grok on the App Store on a mobile phone against a backdrop of search results displayed on the social media platform X
There has been widespread anger after the image tool for Grok was used to manipulate thousands of images of women and sometimes children. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA

Downing Street has condemned the move by X to restrict its AI image creation tool to paying subscribers as insulting, saying it simply made the ability to generate explicit and unlawful images a premium service.

There has been widespread anger after the image tool for Grok, the AI element of X, was used to manipulate thousands of images of women and sometimes children to remove their clothing or put them in sexual positions.

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