UK PM Keir Starmer's office says move to limit access to paying subscribers 'insulting' to victims and 'not a solution'.

Technology minister Liz Kendall called the nonconsensual images of women and minors 'absolutely appalling'.

Rising alarm from disparate nations points to the nightmarish potential of nudification apps that use AI to generate sexually explicit deepfake images.

AI company’s chatbot faces criticism over its generation of sexualized, nonconsensual images of women and girls

X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action

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Downing Street says move to restrict AI tool is ‘not a solution’ after sexualised images of women and children were generated

LONDON: Elon Musk’s startup xAI has restricted the image generation function on its Grok chatbot on social media platform X to paid subscribers, after the tool’s use of AI to…

Several countries have pushed back publicly against the tool that allows users to alter online images to remove the subjects' clothes.

X will only allow Grok image editing by paid subscribers after an outcry from the British government over non-consensual pornographic images.

The restriction comes as regulators worldwide threaten enforcement action over Grok's generation of thousands of non-consensual deepfakes per hour.

UK PM Keir Starmer's office says move to limit access to paying subscribers 'insulting' to victims and 'not a solution'.

Start-up limits use of image generation system to paid users following spread of deepfakes and child sex abuse material

Platform has restricted image creation on the Grok AI tool to paying subscribers, but victims and experts say this does not go far enough

X is limiting Grok's image generation to premium users. It doesn't fix the bot's \

The restriction comes as regulators worldwide threaten enforcement action over Grok's generation of thousands of non-consensual deepfakes per hour.

Governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned reports X’s AI chatbot Grok was creating sexualised images of people, including children

Ministers warn platform could be blocked after Grok AI used to create sexual images without consent

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

Government signals support for possible Ofcom intervention on Grok as scrutiny of X’s AI tool intensifies

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