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X's chatbot Grok is getting restrictions on its ability to sexualise photos of people after weeks of international criticism and complaints that the software was digitally "undressing" women

We now have some idea of what's at stake in the longstanding feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman's personal notes reveal that they've been discussing turning the AI firm into a non-profit without Elon Musk

Elon Musk merupakan antara pengasas bersama terawal untuk OpenAI pada 2015 yang lepas, dan telah menyumbang dana awal sekitar $38 juta ketika itu, iaitu 60% daripada dana awal OpenAI

Jan 17 (Reuters) - Elon Musk is seeking up to $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft, arguing he deserves the "wrongful gains" that they received from his early support of the artificial-intelligence startup, according to a court filing on Friday

An updated rule from the EPA closed a loophole that allowed xAI to build its Memphis data center quickly using air-polluting turbines as a power source.

Jan 16 (Reuters) - California Attorney General Robert Bonta on Friday sent a cease-and-desist letter to xAI demanding the company stop the creation and distribution of artificial intelligence-generated nonconsensual sexualized imagery by its Grok chatbot

And now, Ashley St. Clair, a conservative political strategist and mother of one of Elon Musks 14 children, has sued xAI for nonconsensual sexualized images of her that Grok allegedly produced

Jan 16 (Reuters) - X was down for tens of thousands of users worldwide on Friday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com

Claims Grok chatbot created "countless" sexual images of her without her consent.

The parent company of X and Grok, xAI, launched a counter-suit saying she had violated its terms of service.

Jan 16 (Reuters) - U.S. auto safety regulators have granted Tesla a five-week extension to respond to an investigation into whether its vehicles violated traffic laws while the Elon Musk-led company's Full Self-Driving system was engaged

Global outrage persisted Jan 15 over sexualised deepfakes created by Elon Musk's AI tool Grok, even after his social media platform X said it was blocking the chatbot from undressing images in certain locations

TOKYO, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Japan said on Friday that it has become the latest country to probe X over Elon Musk's artificial intelligence service Grok, stating that the government would consider every possible option to prevent the generation of inappropriate images

Iran has imposed one of the longest nationwide internet shutdowns in its history, cutting more than 92 million people off from connectivity for over a week as mass anti-government protests continue

OpenAI on Thursday told its investors and banking partners that it expects Elon Musk to make "deliberately outlandish" claims ahead of an April trial.

STOCKHOLM/LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's Grok chatbot is testing Europe's ability to clamp down on deepfakes and digital undressing of images online, even after regulators scored a rare win by forcing Musk's xAI to curb the creation of sexualized images

After testing the feature in a limited beta , Bluesky is making its "Live Now" badge for streamers available for everyone on the social network to try

X is banning crypto apps that reward users for posting on the platform.

X has placed more restrictions on Groks ability to generate explicit AI images, but tests show that the updates have created a patchwork of limitations that fail to fully address the issue.

The chatbot's challenges no longer just Elon Musks problem, as campaigners call on tech giants to step in The ongoing Grok fiasco has claimed two more unwilling participants, as campaigners demand Apple and Google boot X and its AI sidekick out of their app stores, because of the Elon Musk-owned AI's tendency to produce illicit images of real people.

LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters) - British media regulator Ofcom said on Thursday its formal investigation into Elon Musk's X over its Grok AI chatbot's sexually intimate deepfake images would continue, even as it welcomed the company's recent policy change

Today,Elon Musksaid that starting February 14, FSD will no longer be sold directly to customers

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) says that it has reached out to the Elon Musk-owned social media platform, X

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X's safety account said in a social media post that no users will be able to create sexualized images of real people using Grok.

Grok will no longer allow users to remove clothing from images of real people, a statement posted on X reads.

Tesla is lagging Waymo in autonomous mobility as the Alphabet-owned driverless car service topped 450,000 paid weekly rides in December.

MADRID, Jan 14 (Reuters) - The European Commission will carefully assess changes Elon Musk's platform X has said it would make to its Grok chatbot, a spokesperson said on Wednesday

In its update, X said that it has "zero tolerance" for child exploitation and that it removes "high-priority violative content, including Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) and non-consensual nudity" from its platform. Earlier in the day, Elon Musk said he was "not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok." He later added that when its NSFW setting is enabled, "Grok is supposed [sic] allow upper body nudity of imaginary adult humans (not real ones) consistent with what can be seen in R-rated movies on Apple TV." He added that "this will vary in other regions" based on local laws

Musk's Grok AI chatbot faces investigations from India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Ireland, Australia, the UK and France as well.

Last week, xAI began imposing rate limits on Grok's image generation abilities, but has so far declined to pull the plug entirely. When asked to comment on the California investigation, xAI responded with an automated email that said "Legacy Media Lies." Earlier on Wednesday, Elon Musk said he was "not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok." Notably, that statement does not directly refute Bonta's allegation that Grok is being used "to alter images of children to depict them in minimal clothing and sexual situations." Musk said that "the operating principle for Grok is to obey the laws" and that the company works to address cases of "adversarial hacking of Grok prompts." This article originally appeared on Engadget at ...al-deepfakes-202029635.html?src=rss

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

So complicated that its own creators are unable to explain why it acts the way it does, and so transformative that we'd be fools to stand in the way of progress. Even when progress resembles a machine for undressing strangers without their consent on an unprecedented scale , as has been the case of late with Elon Musk's Grok chatbot

Jan 14 (Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Wednesday he was not aware of any "naked underage images" generated by xAI's Grok chatbot, as scrutiny of the AI tool intensifies worldwide

LONDON, Jan 14 - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday that Elon Musk's X is acting to ensure full compliance with UK law after the country's media regulator launched a probe into the platform over sexualised imagery produced by the Grok AI chatbot

Tesla will stop selling its $8,000 Full Self-Driving (FSD) option and make it strictly a monthly subscription service after February 14, CEO Elon Musk announced on his X platform

Sistem swapandu Full Self Driving (FSD) ditawarkan sebagai pakej tambahan pada harga RM32,000 kepada pembeli kereta Tesla di Malaysia. Elon Musk hari ini mengatakan bermula 14 Februari depan, FSD tidak lagi akan dijual terus kepada pelanggan

Tesla will make its Full Self-Driving package subscription only soon, CEO Elon Musk tweeted.

Thelasko shares a report from Forbes: We have not seen this before

Elon Musk's company xAI has faced global backlash in recent days over sexualised "deepfake" images of women and children created by its Grok chatbot

PARIS, Jan 14 Elon Musks company xAI has faced global backlash in recent days over sexualised deep...

Elon Musk is making more wild claims about Tesla's upcoming Roadster vehicle.

Jan 13 (Reuters) - An X outage eased on Tuesday after thousands of users worldwide reported issues with accessing the social media platform, according to Downdetector.com

Tesla launched a six-seat "Model YL" version in China in August 2025 with a six-inch wheelbase extension that the US model lacks. Elon Musk said that model would come to the US market in late 2026 or maybe "never." Otherwise, changes to the Model Y lineup are minor and confined to the Premium version

Elon Musk's chatbot is under fire for altering images of women to remove their clothes without their consent.

Amid widespread anti-government protests, Iran shut down all methods of internet access, including Starlink

A UK AI rival to ChatGPT warns that nude image generation cant be made safe as Elon Musks Grok faces regulatory backlash over sexualized AI images

Grok tests if UK can penalize platforms for sexualized deepfakes generated by AI.

The watchdog said it had received reports of the platform's Grok AI chatbot creating undressed images of people.

LONDON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Britain's media regulator launched an investigation into Elon Musk's X on Monday to determine whether sexually intimate deepfakes produced by its Grok AI chatbot violated its duty to protect people in the UK from content that could be illegal

Malaysia and Indonesia blocked access to Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok over the weekend due to concerns that the tool was being used to generate sexually explicit and obscene content

Sexualised images of real people generated by Grok have circulated on X in recent weeks.

Indonesia and Malaysia restricted access to Elon Musk's Grok AI over the weekend, becoming the first countries to ban the artificial intelligence system over its generation of sexual content

Foreign governments are now limiting access to Elon Musk's Grok chatbot as concerns about non-consensual sexual deepfakes linger.

"We will make the new algorithm...open source in 7 days," Elon Musk posted Saturday on X.com

Jan 10 (Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Saturday that social media platform X willopen tothe public its new algorithm, including all code for organic and advertising post recommendations, in seven days

X may soon provide more insight into how its algorithm works. On Saturday, Elon Musk posted on the platform to say that the company "will make the new X algorithm, including all code used to determine what organic and advertising posts are recommended to users, open source in 7 days." X's recommendation algorithm has been the subject of investigations by France and the European Commission , the latter of which recently extended through 2026 a retention order that it sent to the company at the beginning of last year

governments is pitching Canada on a roughly $250-million plan to provide the military with secure satellite broadband coverage in the Arctic, CBC News has learned. Eutelsat, a rival to tech billionaire Elon Musk's Starlink, already provides some services to the Canadian military, but wants to deepen the partnership as Canada looks to diversify defence contracts away from suppliers in the United States

WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's X Corp sued 18 major music publishers and a leading U.S

Senators from Oregon, Massachusetts and New Mexico urged Apple and Google to suspend X and Grok until Elon Musk curbs AI-generated sexualized images of kids.

A group of US Senators aren't impressed by Elon Musk taking the smallest of corrective actions in moving Grok's ability to make child porn behind a paywall, and want X removed from the App Store

Technology editor Zoe Kleinman explains the row over changes made by X to it's Grok AI image edits, after the UK government called it "insulting".

Elon Musk's AI tool Grok says it's now restricted to X paid subscribers, after reports emerged it was digitally removing women and children's clothes from images.

Jan 9 (Reuters) - Governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned and some have opened inquiries into sexually explicit content generated by Elon Musk's xAI chatbot Grok on X, putting pressure on the platform to show what it is doing to prevent and remove illegal content

Jan 9 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's startup xAI has put some restrictions on the image generation function of its Grok chatbot on social media platform X, after the tool's use of AI to create and publish sexualized images sparked a widespread backlash

Jan 9 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is investing more than $20 billion to build a data center in Southaven, Mississippi, state Governor Tate Reeves said in a statement on Thursday, as a boom in generative AI fuels demand for increased computing power

Jan 8 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI reported a net loss of $1.46 billion for the September quarter, compared with a loss of $1 billion in the previous three months, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing internal documents

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Reuters: Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk persuaded a judge on Wednesday to allow a jury trial on his allegations that ChatGPT maker OpenAI violated its founding mission in its high-profile restructuring to a for-profit entity

Elon Musks chatbot has been used to generate thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors

Microsoft is also a defendant in the case, with Musk alleging the company aided and abetted OpenAI's breach of fiduciary duty.

Lawyers say Musk's platform may face punishment under Online Safety Act priority offenses Elon Musk's X platform is under fire as UK regulators close in on mounting reports that the platform's AI chatbot, Grok, is generating sexual imagery without users' consent

BRUSSELS, Jan 8 (Reuters) - The European Commission has ordered Elon Musk's X to retain all documents relating to its AI chatbot, Grok, for longer while the bloc ensures compliance with its rules after condemning it for producing sexualised images, a spokesperson said on Thursday

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is facing a backlash from governments around the world after a recent surge in sexualised images of women and children generated without consent by the artificial intelligence-powered tool

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