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fromThe Verge
5 days agoGrok schlock panned by fed flock
Grok appears rarely in federal AI records, suggesting limited adoption among US government workers despite xAI’s prominence.
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fromSocial Media Today
2 months agoTeenagers sue X over the generation of naked images
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a charity group which aims to remove child abuse material from the internet, discovered various examples of explicit images of young girls that had been generated by Grok, with some victims as young as 11 years old.
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fromBusiness Insider
2 months agoLeaked deck shows Elon Musk's X is promoting Grok's brand-safety scores after sexualized images backlash
X promotes Grok as brand-safe to advertisers while using blocklists and content filtering, despite recent incidents of the AI generating sexualized images of women and children.
fromNextgov.com
3 months agoTrump's nutrition website directs users to Elon Musk's Grok
Grok's placement on the government website realfood.gov follows uproar over the chatbot's creation of millions of sexualized deepfakes of women and children in late December and its spouting of racist and antisemitic content last summer. Other government agencies are also using the chatbot made by xAI, Musk's AI company, but the prominent placement of Grok on realfood.gov over the weekend appears to be one of the first instances of the federal government pointing online visitors to Musk's chatbot.
US politics
fromEngadget
3 months agoX's latest Community Notes experiment allows AI to write the first draft
According to the company, when an existing Community Note contributor requests a note on a post, the request "now also kicks off creation of a Collaborative Note." Contributors can then rate the note or suggest improvements. "Collaborative Notes can update over time as suggestions and ratings come in," X says. "When considering an update, the system reviews new input from contributors to make the note as helpful as possible, then decides whether the new version is a meaningful improvement."
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fromIrish Independent
3 months agoTaoiseach criticises X for 'concerning' and 'disrespectful' decision not to appear in front of Dail committee
X will not attend despite calls for it to face questioning about its AI tool Grok, which has been accused of generating images of sexual abuse, including that of children The Taoiseach has labelled the decision by X not to attend a communications committee hearing as as "concerning" and "disrespectful". Representatives from Meta, TikTok and Google are to appear in front of the Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport today.
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fromTheregister
3 months agoEuropean Commission opens new investigation into X's Grok
The executive branch of the EU said it begun the new probe under the Digital Services Act (DSA), introduced to regulate illegal content, disinformation, and other systemic risks on online platforms, and assess whether the company properly assessed and mitigated risks associated with the deployment of Grok's functionalities into X in the EU.
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fromIndependent
4 months agoElon Musk's X restricts Grok photo editing - and 8 other things to know on the 'nudification' controversy
Gardaí are investigating 200 images made by X's AI Grok over sexualised deepfake concerns; Grok will block editing people in revealing clothing where illegal.
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