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Kevin Okemwa

The UK outlaws deepfake nudes on X after Grok AI uproar — Sorry, Elon, it’s nothing to do with suppression of free speech

Grok 2 running in X.

X's AI-powered chatbot Grok has been on the spot for all the wrong reasons since the latter months of last year after it positively responded to user requests to undress real people based on their posted photographs, turning them into explicit sexual content. Consequently, the company has been under scrutiny across the world for allowing users to generate nonconsensual explicit content.

Reports suggest that the controversial Grok feature has been widely used, generating thousands of sexually explicit images per hour. What's even more concerning is that the feature isn't limited to adults; it even affects minors.

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