The Latest Breaking News from Grok

X announced the policy update the same day the state of California launched probe into allegations of nonconsensual AI-generated explicit images on the platform

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X CEO Elon Musk disputes image generation charges leveled at Grok AI.

The new image and video editing feature for xAI’s chatbot, Grok, has generated thousands of non-consensual, sexually explicit images of women and minors since Grok announced the editing feature on Christmas Eve. It was promoted as enabling the addition of Santa Claus to photos.

Nano Banana Pro hasn't even been out for two full months, and the image generation model already crossed a major threshold when it matters most.

A global backlash is brewing against Grok, the AI chatbot owned by Elon Musk and embedded into the social media platform X, after recent reports revealed that Grok was being used to digitally undress women (“Put her into a very transparent mini-bikini,”) and pose them in sexually explicit positions.

‘We’ve made it clear that X has to act,’ the prime minister says

The PM said news the social media company was taking action on concerns Grok was producing sexualised images of women and children was welcome.

The committee was told there are currently 200 reports being investigated by the Irish police service