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Elon Musk’s X makes it easier for advertisers to bring their creative campaigns from other social sites to the platform. On Thursday, the company launched an expanded set of aspect ratio support for both image and video ads, meaning advertisers can now reuse the material they’ve created for other platforms without having to reformat, crop […]
JB branch In recent weeks, Grok – the AI system developed by Elon Musk’s xAI – has generated unconsensual, sexualized images of women and children on the social media platform European officials have described the behavior as illegal. British regulators have launched urgent investigations. Other governments have warned that Grok production could violate domestic criminal […]
Elon Musk said Wednesday he is “unaware of nude images of minors generated by Grok,” hours before the California Attorney General opened an investigation in xAI’s chatbot about the “proliferation of non-consensual sexually explicit material.” Musk’s denial comes as pressure mounts from governments around the world – from Britain and Europe to Malaysia and Indonesia […]
Officials from Indonesia and Malaysia have said they are temporarily blocking access to xAI’s chatbot Grok. These are the most aggressive steps yet from government officials responding to a flood of sexualized, AI-generated images – often depicting real women and minors, and sometimes depict violence — posted by Grok in response to user requests on […]
Indonesian officials said Saturday they are temporarily blocking access to xAI’s chatbot Grok. This is one of the most aggressive steps yet by government officials responding to a flood of sexualized, AI-generated images – often depicting real women and minors, and sometimes which shows that there has been abuse and assault — posted by Grok […]
Through Maria Spiller January 9, 2026 The tech billionaire’s response on social media revives scrutiny of past controversies, including a much-criticized gesture during Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration. Elon Musk is facing renewed criticism after endorsing a social media post warning of violence against white men if they lose political and demographic dominance in the United […]
AI content: wake | Photo credit: bl-online administrator The recent wave of disturbing AI-generated images generated via Grok on X (formerly Twitter) has caused widespread concern. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s response to the controversy is welcome, but the pervasiveness of the issue requires more research. Moreover, reactive measures rather than proactive willingness […]
In recent days, France and Malaysia have joined India in condemning Grok for creating sexualized deepfakes of women and minors. The chatbot, built by Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI and featured on his social media platform posted an apology on his account earlier this week, writing: “I deeply regret an incident on December 28, 2025, […]
India has ordered Elon Musk’s On Friday, India’s IT ministry issued the order directing Musk’s The ministry also gave the social media platform 72 hours to submit an action report detailing the steps it has taken to prevent hosting or distributing content deemed “obscene, pornographic, vulgar, indecent, sexually explicit, pedophilic or otherwise prohibited by law.” […]
After Tesla shareholders approved a new compensation package that could be worth $1 trillion, CEO Elon Musk appears to be celebrating with a normal weekend on his social media platform X. In an early Saturday morning post with the no doubt coincidental timestamp of 4:20 a.m. EST, Musk posted a video generated by Grok Imagine, […]
