UK investigates Musk's X over Grok deepfake concerns
World,Technology,AI,Twitter,United Kingdom,Keir Starmer,Elon Musk,Free Speech
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Britain's media regulator launched an investigation into Elon Musk's X on Monday over concerns its Grok AI chatbot was creating sexually intimate deepfake images in violation of its duty to protect people in the UK from illegal content.
The British government said a new law making it an offence to create sexual deepfakes would come into force this week to tackle the images, which it called "weapons of abuse".
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