Starmer threatens to 'control' Grok if Elon Musk's X keeps creating sexual images

Sir Keir Starmer has threatened to "control" X's AI chatbot Grok if Elon Musk's societal media level continues to make intersexual images of women and children.

The premier curate told his MPs the actions of Grok and X are "absolutely disgusting and shameful".

"If X cannot power Grok, we volition - and we'll bash it accelerated due to the fact that if you nett from harm and abuse, you suffer the close to aforesaid regulate," helium told a gathering of the Parliamentary Labour Party.

Images are being generated by Grok, X's AI tool, that sexualise women and children, manipulating photos of radical to region their apparel oregon marque them airs successful suggestive ways.

Grok's representation instauration relation has been switched disconnected for each but paying subscribers aft a planetary outcry, but immoderate non-paying users person reported inactive being capable to make sexualised images of women and children.

Sir Keir added connected Monday evening: "Protecting their abusive users, alternatively than the women and children who are being abused shows a full distortion of priorities.

"So fto maine beryllium crystal clear, we won't basal for it, due to the fact that nary substance however unstable oregon analyzable the satellite becomes, this authorities volition beryllium guided by its values. We'll basal up for the susceptible against the powerful."

Downing Street earlier suggested the authorities was unfastened to ending its usage of X if the level did not enactment connected concerns astir its AI chatbot, adding that "all options are connected the table".

Over the weekend, Mr Musk said the UK authorities "wants immoderate excuse for censorship" aft Sir Keir said X needed "to get a grip" of Grok and Downing Street described the regulation to paid users arsenic "insulting".

Just hours earlier Sir Keir's latest threat, exertion caput Liz Kendall announced she was speeding up laws to marque creating non-consensual intimate images with AI a transgression offence.

Requesting the instauration of the images volition besides beryllium amerciable from this week, she said.

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The Data (Use and Access) Act was passed past year, with sections of the enactment being implemented slowly, but Ms Kendall said she was speeding it up for the conception connected AI instauration of non-consensual intimate images.

She besides announced that the Crime and Policing Bill, which is going done parliament, volition marque it a transgression offence for companies to proviso tools designed to make non-consensual net images.

On Monday morning, media watchdog Ofcom launched a ceremonial probe into Grok, which volition look into whether X has "failed to comply with its ineligible obligations nether the Online Safety Act".

The regulator said: "There person been profoundly concerning reports of the Grok AI chatbot relationship connected X being utilized to make and stock undressed images of radical - which whitethorn magnitude to intimate representation maltreatment oregon pornography - and sexualised images of children that whitethorn magnitude to kid intersexual maltreatment material."