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An artificial quality (AI) instrumentality producing sexualised images of children volition not beryllium tolerated and is "disgusting" and "unlawful", the premier curate has said.
Sir Keir Starmer said societal media level X has "got to get a grip of" its AI tool, Grok, and that he's asked media regulator, Ofcom, for "all options to beryllium connected the table".
It follows reports from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) that criminals person been utilizing Grok to make kid intersexual maltreatment imagery.
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Grok is an AI instrumentality that X users tin instruct to find retired information, reply questions and make images.
The IWF revealed this week it had discovered transgression sexualised imagery of children aged betwixt 11 and 13 that had been created by Grok.
Speaking to Greatest Hits Radio connected Thursday, the premier curate said: "This is disgraceful. It's disgusting. And it's not to beryllium tolerated.
"X has got to get a grip of this. And Ofcom has our afloat enactment to instrumentality enactment successful narration to this. This is wrong."
X and xAI - which produces Grok - are some owned by tech billionaire Elon Musk, and person been nether occurrence for a fig of days aft a caller diagnostic led to users seeing AI-generated sexualised images of themselves connected X.
Sir Keir added: "It's unlawful. We're not going to tolerate it. I've asked for each options to beryllium connected the table.
"It's disgusting. And X request to get their enactment unneurotic and get this worldly down. And we volition instrumentality enactment connected this due to the fact that it's simply not tolerable."
Earlier successful the day, erstwhile Labour furniture curate Louise Haigh urged the PM and the remainder of authorities to discontinue the societal media platform.
She said: "I telephone connected my enactment and my authorities to region themselves wholly from X and pass with the nationalist wherever they really enactment online and tin beryllium protected from specified illegality."
Asked whether the authorities could halt utilizing X connected Wednesday, a Downing Street spokesperson said: "All options are connected the table."
They replied the aforesaid mode erstwhile asked whether the premier curate was accepting images similar this by continuing to usage X. But the spokesperson added that Ofcom had their "full backing to instrumentality enactment connected failings by firms".
Ofcom has asked X to clarify however it is complying with information extortion instrumentality implicit the AI images.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall called connected X to instrumentality "urgent" enactment earlier this week.
Sky News has contacted X for comment.
The site's Safety relationship earlier this week read: "We instrumentality enactment against amerciable contented connected X, including Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), by removing it, permanently suspending accounts, and moving with section governments and instrumentality enforcement arsenic necessary.
"Anyone utilizing oregon prompting Grok to marque amerciable contented volition endure the aforesaid consequences arsenic if they upload amerciable content."
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