X<\/a> for its communications, saying it was no longer appropriate to do so given preventing violence against women and girls was among its key policy areas.<\/p>\nThe decision marks the first significant move by a Westminster organisation to exit X in response to the misuse of Grok. While the decision concerned only the committee\u2019s account, some individual members, including the Labour chair, Sarah Owen, have already stopped using X. Another, the Liberal Democrat MP Christine Jardine, said she was leaving the platform, calling the images generated by Grok \u201cthe last straw\u201d.<\/p>\n
Alexander said the imagery viewed by the IWF has been used to create even more extreme material \u2013 known as Category A, which includes penetrative sexual activity \u2013 using a different AI tool.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are extremely concerned about the ease and speed with which people can apparently generate photo-realistic child sexual abuse material. Tools like Grok now risk bringing sexual AI imagery of children into the mainstream. That is unacceptable,\u201d Alexander added.<\/p>\n
Musk\u2019s xAI, which owns Grok and X, has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n
Downing Street said \u201call options were on the table\u201d, including a boycott of X as ministers backed the UK regulator, Ofcom, to take action.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the prime minister\u2019s official spokesperson said: \u201cX needs to deal with this urgently and Ofcom has our full backing to take enforcement action wherever firms are failing to protect UK users.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt already has the power to issue fines of up to billions of pounds and even stop access to a site that is violating the law.\u201d<\/p>\n
Requests for Grok to manipulate images of women to \u201cput her in a bikini\u201d continued to flood in on X on Wednesday. Despite the warnings of EU and UK regulatory action, there was no evidence that the platform had installed tighter safeguards, and pictures of teenage girls continue to be stripped down digitally at the request of X users, to show them in small, revealing items of underwear, or positioned in sexually explicit poses.<\/p>\n
Some users have demanded more extreme content, asking the chatbot to decorate bikinis with swastikas, or requesting alterations to photographs of women so they appear to be victims of abuse. The chatbot has obliged by adding cigarette burns, facial bruising, and blood to some images of women.<\/p>\n
The UK\u2019s data watchdog \u2013 the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO) \u2013 said it had contacted X and xAI \u201cto seek clarity on the measures they have in place to comply with UK data protection law and protect individuals\u2019 rights\u201d, adding people have \u201ca right to use social media knowing their personal data is being handled lawfully and with respect\u201d.<\/p>\n
X has said it takes action against illegal content, including child sexual abuse material, \u201cby removing it, permanently suspending accounts, and working with local governments and law enforcement as necessary\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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