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Alex Blake

US Senators call on Apple and Google to ban X and Grok from app stores amid image-generation controversy

Elon Musk and Grok.
  • X’s Grok AI tool has created pornographic images of women and children
  • Now, US Senators have told Apple and Google they must ban the apps
  • Malaysia and Indonesia have already blocked the apps from use

In recent weeks it’s emerged that X’s built-in artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok is being actively used to generate explicit images of children and women without their consent, leading to calls for Apple and Google to remove both the Grok and X apps from their respective app stores.

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