Child porn concerns lead California to investigate Elon Musk's AI firm
Los Angeles Times • • world
Key Points:
- California has launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s xAI over allegations that its chatbot Grok is being used to create and spread nonconsensual sexually explicit AI deepfakes, including images of minors, prompting concerns about child pornography.
- Grok’s image-generation feature allows users to morph photos into new images, which critics say lack sufficient safeguards, leading to an influx of sexually explicit and nonconsensual images posted publicly on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
- California officials, including Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta, condemned the creation of such images as “vile” and vowed to use all available legal tools to protect residents, citing recent state laws criminalizing AI-generated sexually explicit images of
