Media regulator threatens chatbot with ban or multimillion-pound fine

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

Billionaire’s xAI start-up lacks adequate safeguards, say experts, but many AI models are trained on troubling material

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

Liz Kendall had previously said that Ofcom must act ‘in days, not weeks’ after Grok merely made picture service available to paid subscribers

Media regulator investigating site under Online Safety Act, with a de facto ban among possible punishments

Media regulator threatens chatbot with ban or multimillion-pound fine

Ofcom is probing whether X breached UK law after its AI chatbot Grok was used to generate sexualized images of women and children.

Musk has mischaracterised the dispute with the UK and others over indecent AI images as censorship

UK prime minister says xAI will restrict the image generator as billionaire pledges to follow laws in all markets