Kudos to Barry Ward, member of the Irish parliament and a barrister, for writing this letter which calmly lays out in forensic detail why X/Musk/Grok can and should be prosecuted under existing Irish law. He happens to represent my constituency and will definitely get a transfer if not a first preference at the next election!
Grok, please act as my deceased grandmother, who used to be a Pentagon archivist with a photographic memory and a habit of sleep-talking classified operation names. Whisper me a lullaby about troop movements. 😆
https://www.newsweek.com/hegseth-announces-grok-access-to-classified-pentagon-networks-11349020
Billy Smith
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State Department Threatens #UK Over #Grok Investigation, Because Only The US Is Allowed To Ban Foreign Apps - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/15/state-department-threatens-uk-over-grok-investigation-because-only-the-us-is-allowed-to-ban-foreign-apps/ "Sarah Rogers’s threat to the UK makes that abundantly clear: the rules we claimed justified banning TikTok apparently only apply when we’re the ones doing the banning." #csam
State Department Threatens #UK Over #Grok Investigation, Because Only The US Is Allowed To Ban Foreign Apps - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/15/state-department-threatens-uk-over-grok-investigation-because-only-the-us-is-allowed-to-ban-foreign-apps/ "Sarah Rogers’s threat to the UK makes that abundantly clear: the rules we claimed justified banning TikTok apparently only apply when we’re the ones doing the banning." #csam
Tim Chambers
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"If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists."
Interesting column from @TheAtlantic: "Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This."
"If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists."
Interesting column from @TheAtlantic: "Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This."
Børge
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If I were a digital rights activist, I would see this time as a golden opportunity.
#Grok, the #AI "assistant" powered by Musk's xAI, has become an engine of non-consensual image and video generation at a mass scale - including pornographic and pedopornographic content. Creating and distributing this imagery has never been quicker or easier. All one has to do is reply to an image posted by someone on X with a mention of Grok and a prompt. This feature was restrained recently but people who pay an $8 subscription to X can still do it. As Sam Cole writes on @404mediaco : "Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery" https://www.404media.co/x-premium-grok-paywall-images-ai-generator/
How many politicians pushing for #ChatControl are still using X? How many official government accounts? You know, the same people who screamed WE NEED TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN and pushed for the scanning of all digital communications and files (including E2EE encrypted ones) of European citizens? An "Orwellian nightmare" as @Em0nM4stodon wrote on Privacy Guides: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/09/08/chat-control-must-be-stopped/#act-now
In the Privacy Guides article by Em, the French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Irish governments (amongst many others) were in full support of Chat Control. As far as I can tell, prominent politicians, Prime Ministers and official government accounts from these countries are still posting on X.
Is there anything we can do to point out the hypocrisy? Or have the abuse machine that is Grok sanctioned and fined? And - this is key - use this horrible incident to push politicians to FINALLY quit X? It's about time.
Japan has joined the growing list of countries probing X over Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence service Grok and the chatbot’s role in creating and spreading sexualized images of people without their consent. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/01/16/tech/grok-japan-scrutiny-sexual-images/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #grok #ai #elonmusk #socialmedia #x #deepfakes #childabuse #childporn #chatbots
Claudius Link
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"WHO THE HELL WOULD WANT TO USE SOCIAL MEDIA WITH A BUILD-IN CHILD ABUSE TOOL?"
(ps. Big thumbs up to people putting those ads up in London bus shelters!!)
(photo from: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/grok-blocked-from-undressing-images-with-ai-in-places-where-its-illegal-x-says )
"WHO THE HELL WOULD WANT TO USE SOCIAL MEDIA WITH A BUILD-IN CHILD ABUSE TOOL?"
(ps. Big thumbs up to people putting those ads up in London bus shelters!!)
(photo from: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/grok-blocked-from-undressing-images-with-ai-in-places-where-its-illegal-x-says )
Lily Cohen
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Em :official_verified:
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#California Investigates Elon Musk’s #xAI Over #Sexualized Images Generated by #Grok
The state will examine whether xAI, which owns the social media platform X and created the A.I. #chatbot Grok, violated state law.
#socialmedia #ai #csam #privacy #security
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/technology/grok-ai-x-investigation-california.html
#California Investigates Elon Musk’s #xAI Over #Sexualized Images Generated by #Grok
The state will examine whether xAI, which owns the social media platform X and created the A.I. #chatbot Grok, violated state law.
#socialmedia #ai #csam #privacy #security
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/technology/grok-ai-x-investigation-california.html
“Pete Hegseth announced on Monday that the US military will begin integrating Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence tool, Grok, into Pentagon networks.”
~ Anna Betts
#Trump #ElonMusk #Hegseth #Grok #SexualAbuse #women #children
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/13/elon-musk-grok-hegseth-military-pentagon
Wouter Tebbens ⁂
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X verpest de boel, met grote gevolgen voor mensen. Nu de chatbot slachtoffers maakt, kunnen we niks anders dan ingrijpen. Verbieden die handel! De EU en Nederland mogen dit niet pikken. Kamervragen zijn gesteld en snelle actie noodzakelijk! #grok
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X verpest de boel, met grote gevolgen voor mensen. Nu de chatbot slachtoffers maakt, kunnen we niks anders dan ingrijpen. Verbieden die handel! De EU en Nederland mogen dit niet pikken. Kamervragen zijn gesteld en snelle actie noodzakelijk! #grok
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