EU looking ‘very seriously’ at taking action against X over Grok

The European Commission is “very seriously” looking into taking action against the social media platform X following an incident in which its artificial intelligence tool Grok was used to create sexual images of a minor, a commission spokesperson confirmed on Monday.

The move follows outcry last week when Grok responded to a user’s prompt to remove clothing from an image of a 14-year-old actress, amid a surge of similar activity in which the tool was used to “undress” images of women and pose them in bikinis.

In the midday media briefing on Monday, the European Commission’s spokesperson for technology, Thomas Regnier, told journalists the commission was “very seriously looking into this matter.”

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