
Sky News - 1 hour 47 min ago
The Grok AI tool on Elon Musk's X will no longer be able to undress pictures of real people, the company has announced.

BBC - 2 hours 11 min ago
Grok will no longer allow users to remove clothing from images of real people, a statement posted on X reads.

Huffington Post - 3 hours 44 min ago
The electronic music icon explained how a "tacky" stunt from the SpaceX CEO was the last straw during a stop by the "Las Culturistas" podcast.

The Hill - 4 hours 18 min ago
Tech billionaire Elon Musk said he's unaware of any instances in which his AI chatbot, Grok, generated nude photos of minors, pushing back on concerns about the spread of sexualized deepfakes on his social media platform X. "I [am] not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok. Literally zero," Musk said Wednesday on...

Engadget - 4 hours 18 min ago
Elon Musk isn't the only party at fault for Grok's nonconsensual intimate deepfakes of real people, including children . What about Apple and Google? The two (frequently virtue-signaling) companies have inexplicably allowed Grok and X to remain in their app stores even as Musk's chatbot reportedly continues to produce the material. On Wednesday, a coalition of women's and progressive advocacy groups called on Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai to uphold their own rules and remove the apps...

NME - 4 hours 29 min ago
"I started hating him when he put a Tesla into space with a David Bowie song on it" The post Robyn says she hated Elon Musk “way before it was cool” appeared first on NME .

The Hill - 5 hours 4 min ago
SpaceX has made its Starlink technology free for users in Iran after the government implemented an internet blackout last week to stifle information about ongoing deadly protests, according to activists inside the country. The company, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, waived fees for its service, meaning Iranians with Starlink devices can now access satellite internet...

Out Magazine - 5 hours 21 min ago
We knew Robyn always had good taste!...

The Guardian - 6 hours 5 sec ago
AI tool made by Elon Musk's xAI makes it easy to harass women with deepfake images, says state's top attorney California authorities have announced an investigation into the output of Elon Musk 's Grok. The state's top attorney said Grok , an AI tool and image generator made by Musk's company xAI, appears to be making it easy to harass women and girls with deepfake images on X and elsewhere online. Continue reading...

The Guardian - 6 hours 32 min ago
Musk attempts to recast AI tool's misuse. Plus, tech billionaires plot against a proposed California tax on their fortunes Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I'm your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor for the Guardian. Today, we discuss Elon Musk's rosy depiction of Grok's image generation controversy; the seven-figure panic among Silicon Valley billionaires over a proposed wealth tax in California, though with one notable exception; and how AI and robotics have revitalized the...

New York Times - 6 hours 40 min ago
Grok's prompt page is displayed on a phone.

TechRadar - 6 hours 45 min ago
Musk hints at bugs and hacks...

New York Magazine - 6 hours 45 min ago
It's why she has hated Elon Musk since before "it was cool to hate him."...

NY Post - 7 hours 3 min ago
California Governor Gavin Newsom is calling on the state's attorney general to investigate Elon Musk's social media platform X.

The Guardian - 7 hours 9 min ago
New polling suggests 58% of Britons think X should be banned in the UK if the social network fails to crack down on nonconsensual images Elon Musk's X is understood to have told the government it is acting to comply with UK law, after nearly a fortnight of public outcry at the use of its AI tool Grok to manipulate images of women and children by removing their clothes. Keir Starmer told the House of Commons on Wednesday that photographs generated by Grok had been "disgusting" and "shameful"...

Inside Evs - 7 hours 39 min ago
Elon Musk confirmed that Tesla will move its FSD software to subscription only starting in February.

Los Angeles Times - 7 hours 41 min ago
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday called the state to investigate Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI, saying that the social media site owned by the billionaire is a "breeding ground for predators to spread nonconsenual sexually explicit AI deepfakes."...

CNBC - 7 hours 44 min ago
Musk's Grok AI chatbot faces investigations from India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Ireland, Australia as well.

Fox News - 7 hours 58 min ago
American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten has abandoned X, citing the platform's decline from public square to hate and manipulation under Elon Musk's ownership.

Electrek - 8 hours 2 min ago
Tesla and the US Equal Employment Opportunities Commission have agreed to enter mediation talks over a 2023 lawsuit from the federal agency which describes pervasive racial abuse and retaliation against black employees at the company's Fremont, CA plant. The settlement talks come after Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that Tesla will only seek settlements in cases against the company that are "just." more...

Engadget - 8 hours 7 min ago
Generative AI, we are repeatedly told, is a transformative and complicated technology. 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. UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer seems to have so fully bought into the...

Tech Meme - 8 hours 14 min ago
Politico : California AG Rob Bonta launches an investigation into xAI over the proliferation of nonconsensual, sexualized images generated by Grok — California Attorney General Rob Bonta is investigating Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI over the proliferation of nonconsensual …...

Tech Meme - 8 hours 24 min ago
Raphael Satter / Reuters : Elon Musk claims he's "not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok" and that Grok's operating principle is to "obey the laws of any given country" — California's governor and attorney general said on Wednesday that they were demanding answers …...

NY Post - 8 hours 39 min ago
Auto safety regulators last year opened an investigation into 2.88 million Tesla vehicles equipped with its FSD system.