Musk’s Grok to bar users from generating sexual images of real people

The billionaire’s level has been inundated with Grok-produced sexualised images, including of children.

Elon Musk’s X has said it volition “geoblock” users of xAI Grok from creating images of radical successful “bikinis, underwear, and akin attire” amid a planetary backlash against the chatbot’s sexualised images.

“We person implemented technological measures to forestall the Grok relationship from allowing the editing of images of existent radical successful revealing covering specified arsenic bikinis,” X’s information squad said successful a connection precocious connected Wednesday.

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Only paid subscribers volition beryllium allowed to make and edit images, portion users volition beryllium blocked from generating sexualised imagery “in those jurisdictions wherever it’s illegal”.

The connection did not elaborate connected the quality of the geoblocking oregon different safeguards. X claimed to person “zero tolerance for immoderate forms of kid intersexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity, and unwanted intersexual content”.

X’s Grok faces investigations and bans from regulators and governments astir the satellite pursuing a deluge of sexualised AI images connected the level successful caller weeks.

The chatbot’s “spicy mode” allowed users to make deepfakes with prompts including “put her successful a bikini” and “remove her clothes”. Users person wielded the diagnostic to station AI-generated images of women and children without their consent.

On Wednesday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced an probe into “whether and however xAI violated the law” successful “facilitating the large-scale production” of deepfakes utilized to harass women and girls, including “children successful nude and sexually explicit situations”.

Bonta said an “avalanche of reports” prompted the investigation.

The United Kingdom’s media regulator Ofcom launched its ain probe connected Monday, portion French ministers said they had referred Grok-generated intersexual contented to prosecutors and media regulator Arcom.

Indonesia was the archetypal state to temporarily block access to Grok earlier this week amid interest implicit rising deepfake attacks, portion Malaysia besides banned the chatbot and said it planned to prosecute ineligible enactment against X.

The European Commission extended a retention bid sent to X past twelvemonth to clasp and sphere each interior documents and information related ⁠to Grok until the extremity of 2026.

Hours earlier announcing the information measures, far-right billionaire Musk claimed connected X that helium was “not alert of immoderate bare underage images generated by Grok. Literally zero.”

“Obviously, Grok does not spontaneously make images, it does truthful lone according to idiosyncratic requests,” helium added.