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Grokpile

The Guardian reports:

A Labour MP has taken legal action against Elon Musk’s xAI company after saying its Grok tool helped a user produce fake sexualised pictures of her, part of a wave of such images that flooded the social media platform https://www.theguardian.com/technology/twitter earlier this year.

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Jess Asato, the MP for Lowestoft, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0ke3pjkxvpo in January that seeing herself portrayed by the AI tool as wearing a bikini without her consent was “violating”.

In a claim submitted to the high court in London, Asato said xAI – now a subsidiary of SpaceX, which also owns X – breached laws connected to data protection and the misuse of private information by letting users of the site prompt Grok to create such images

But, to be fair, Grok also does this:

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