2026-01-14
10 分钟This is The Guardian.
He's trying to turn this into a cultural issue.
He's talking about free speech.
He's said that the British government is acting in a way which is fascist.
No woman or child should live in fear of having their image sexually manipulated by technology.
Yet in recent days,
the GROC AI tool on the social media platform X has been used to create and share degrading,
non-consensual, intimate deepfakes.
The strength of Elon amongst ministers is there for all to see at the start of this week and it seems
like they're spoiling for a fight with Elon Musk.
The government is preparing to go into battle with Elon Musk after an outcry over sexualised deepfakes on his platform X.
From the Guardians today in focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoth.
Joining me is Aaron Sharp, senior national editor at The Guardian.
So let's talk about the tool that's at the centre of this story,
this grok tool that is enabling users to create sexualised deep fake images,
particularly of women and children on demand that's been met with an outcry from ministers and the public.
Yeah, so grok is X's Elon Musk's in-house generative AI tool.
It's a chat bot.
It's not been without controversies since its launch.
It's been accused of being right-wing in its political stance and of publishing disinformation or repeating disinformation.