Keeping Grok in check

E.. Musk’s social media platform X, the chosen bullhorn of politicians and campaigners in many countries, finds itself at the centre of social outrage after its Al engine, Grok, allowed users to generate sexually explicit deepfakes of real people.

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Clearly out of control, Grok has allowed X users to disrobe women, put them in sexual positions and even target children, turning the platform into a cesspool of perversion, One of the victims was a 14-year-old female actor in the Netflix series Stranger Things, whose clothes were removed by the technology to produce a fake image, exposing the destructive potential of uncontrolled use of AIL. The response from X has been more than disappointing, It restricted the use of Grok for image generation to premium users who pay the platform. This approach is a cynical use of a serious problem to churn out higher revenues when the need is to mitigate the damage. It is unsurprising that Indonesia has banned Grok for now, France is investigating, and the UK government has condemned the upscaling of deepfake ge