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The UK authorities "wants immoderate excuse for censorship", Elon Musk has said, amid a increasing backlash implicit deepfake intersexual images produced by his societal media tract X's artificial quality tool.
Earlier this week, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said X needed "to get a grip of" its AI chatbot Grok, and helium had asked media regulator Ofcom for "all options to beryllium connected the table".
Indonesia temporarily blocked the chatbot connected Saturday, becoming the first state to contradict entree to the AI tool.
It comes aft disapproval from governments and regulators successful Europe and Asia, with immoderate opening inquiries into sexualised content.
Earlier this week, the Internet Watch Foundation reported that criminals person been utilizing Grok to make kid intersexual maltreatment imagery.
On Friday, X appeared to person changed Grok's settings, with a connection displayed by the chatbot saying representation editing had been limited to paid subscribers - changes described arsenic "insulting" by Downing Street.
Appearing defiant, Musk later shared 1 X user's station criticising the Labour authorities for seemingly focusing connected his platform, pointing to claims of different AI programmes creating non-sexualised images of women successful bikinis.
"They privation immoderate excuse for censorship," the tech billionaire said.
He has antecedently said connected X that anyone utilizing Grok to marque amerciable contented would endure the aforesaid consequences arsenic if they had uploaded it.
Criticism of X has focused connected manipulation of photographs of existent women to region their clothes, and the reports of Grok's accumulation of images of kid abuse.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has said she would backmost regulator Ofcom should X beryllium blocked if it fails to comply with UK laws, saying: "Sexually manipulating images of women and children is despicable and abhorrent."
Ms Kendall said it was "totally unacceptable for Grok to let this if you're consenting to wage for it" and she expects an update connected Ofcom's adjacent steps "in days, not weeks".
Ofcom is present undertaking an "expedited assessment" of the concern aft making "urgent contact" with X implicit the reports.
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The media watchdog has powers nether the Online Safety Act to good businesses up to £18m, oregon 10% of planetary revenue, arsenic good arsenic to instrumentality transgression action.
It tin besides bid outgo providers, advertisers and net work providers to halt moving with a site, efficaciously banning them, though this would necessitate statement from the courts.
Meanwhile, aft the impermanent artifact successful Indonesia, communications and integer curate Meutya Hafid said the authorities "views the signifier of non-consensual sexual deepfakes arsenic a superior usurpation of quality rights, dignity, and the information of citizens successful the integer space".
The state has strict rules that prohibition the sharing of online contented deemed obscene.
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