
Engadget - 1 hour 1 min ago
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...

Fox News - 3 hours 33 min ago
The Grok chatbot, park of billionaire Elon Musk's X platform, is facing backlash for creating an AI image depicting two young girls in a sexual manner.

Sky News - 6 hours 12 min ago
David Lammy has said that US vice president JD Vance agrees that sexualised AI-generated deepfakes - such as those made using Elon Musk's Grok - are "entirely unacceptable".

Tech Meme - 8 hours 33 min ago
Fransiska Nangoy / Reuters : Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok due to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the first country to deny access to the AI tool — Indonesia temporarily blocked Elon Musk's Grok chatbot on Saturday due to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the first country to deny access to the AI tool.

Slate - 9 hours 56 min ago
Lizzie O'Leary joins to break down the story of the disturbing deepfakes being created by X's AI chatbot.

The Guardian - 10 hours 46 min ago
Ministers warn platform could be blocked after Grok AI used to create sexual images without consent Elon Musk has accused the UK government of wanting to suppress free speech after ministers threatened fines and a possible ban for his social media site X after its AI tool, Grok, was used to make sexual images of women and children without their consent. The billionaire claimed Grok was the most downloaded app on the UK App Store on Friday night after ministers threatened to take action unless the...

Vox - 11 hours 58 min ago
For the past few weeks, Elon Musk's Grok AI bot has been generating pornographic images of women and underage girls, without their consent, at an astounding rate. A recent Bloomberg analysis found that Grok creates 6,700 such images per hour, or more than one per minute. On Friday, X at last put some minor guardrails on the tool, with a new policy that only paying subscribers can use Grok to generate or alter images . On the standalone Grok app, however, anyone can prompt Grok to generate new...

The Independent - 12 hours 16 min ago
Governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned reports X's AI chatbot Grok was creating sexualised images of people, including children...

Quartz - 13 hours 46 min ago
As Grok keeps pilling up scandals inside X from deepfakes to hate speech Elon Musk's xAI keeps scaling like credibility is a downstream problem...

Sky News - 14 hours 9 min ago
The UK government "wants any excuse for censorship", Elon Musk has said, amid a growing backlash over deepfake sexual images produced by his social media site X's artificial intelligence tool.

The Guardian - 16 hours 6 min ago
Move comes after governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned the AI tool and some have opened inquiries into sexualised content Indonesia temporarily blocked Elon Musk's Grok chatbot on Saturday due to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the first country to deny access to the AI tool. The move comes after governments, researchers and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned and some have opened inquiries into sexualised content on the app. Continue...

NBC News - 21 hours 39 min ago
On Elon Musk's social media platform X, the Grok AI image generation reply bot has been changed to be for paying customers only and appears to be restricted from making sexualized deepfakes after recent outcry. But in the Grok standalone app and other spaces, users can still use AI to remove clothing from images of nonconsenting people. NBC News' Kevin Collier talks with Gadi Schwartz about the changes.

US Weekly - 21 hours 47 min ago
The alleged mother of Elon Musk's 13th child, Ashley St. Clair , has lashed out after X's AI technology, Grok, created X-rated images of her. Speaking to Inside Edition in an interview airing on Friday, January 9, St. Clair described being left feeling "disgusted and violated" after the images were allegedly generated. "I got a text from a friend, right after I put my son to sleep, so I was like, 'Oh my God, what could this be now?' And I found that Grok was undressing...

Digital Music News - 21 hours 54 min ago
X is suing music publishers and the NMPA with allegations of "weaponizing" takedown requests and colluding to "coerce" the platform into licensing deals. Elon Musk's X has been embroiled in legal battles with music publishers united under the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) since 2023. Now, the former Twitter is countersuing with allegations that music […]...

Digital Music News - 22 hours 10 min ago
Elon Musk's AI chatbot now prevents non-paying users from generating or editing images in the wake of global backlash over its sexualized deepfakes. Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, no longer allows non-paying users to generate or edit images. The move comes amid intense backlash on a worldwide […]...

Black Enterprise - 23 hours 58 min ago
The incident has also revived scrutiny of Musk's past behavior.