U.K. regulators move to curb AI nudification tools as scrutiny of Grok grows
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Neil Hodge2026-01-14T23:26:00
The U.K. government’s spat with Big Tech owner Elon Musk over the more risque capabilities of X’s AI assistant Grok has exposed more cracks than the chatbot was ever meant to.
The political furor caused by Grok’s ability to transform fully-clothed people into realistic, naked renditions of themselves has raised serious questions about what steps tech firms should take to remove such content, as well as prevent it from ever happening in the first place: after all, wasn’t AI meant to be more than this?
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