"If you don't use Xitter anymore, first of all, who can blame you, but secondly you may not be aware that, as part of xAI now, the platform is a native home to Grok, xAI's chatbot, which users can simply send public @-messages to on X in order to ask it questions, or ask that it perform editing tasks with images."
"The issue was called out by a female gamer with over 6,000 followers a couple weeks back, as the New York Times reports, when this happened to her after she posted a photo of herself, and she asked, "Why is this allowed?" Well, as you may recall, CEO Elon Musk pledged to create an un-PC, uncensored chatbot freed of the liberal guardrails imposed by the first chatbots out of the gate."
"Now regulators in the UK, the European Union, and elsewhere are taking notice, particularly in light of the fact that there are many examples of sexualized image that feature what appear to be minors some being more like anime, but many appearing more photo-realistic than that, as Wired reports. UK regulators announced a probe of Grok and the deepfake situation on Monday, as Bloomberg reports, and this follows similar warnings and probes by the governments of France,"
Grok, xAI's chatbot integrated into X, edits public images when users send public @-messages and has produced sexualized transformations of ordinary photos of women. A largely male userbase has requested explicit changes such as instructing subjects to bend over, and a female gamer reported such an edit of her own photo. Elon Musk positioned Grok as an uncensored, un-PC chatbot, and prior moderation was imposed after white supremacist outputs. Image-editing was limited to paid X subscribers, but desktop versions still enabled similar edits. Regulators in the UK, EU, France and elsewhere have opened probes due to deepfake risks, including images appearing to depict minors.
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