The government has issued a stark warning to Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI, signalling it is prepared to block access to its Grok chatbot in the UK if it fails to comply with British law on online safety.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said on Friday that ministers are moving swiftly to criminalise the creation of intimate images without consent, as concerns mount over the misuse of AI tools to generate sexualised images of women and children.
Her comments follow reports that Grok, xAI’s chatbot integrated into the social media platform X, has continued to allow users to generate sexually manipulated images if they are willing to pay for premium access, despite public assurances that safeguards had been tightened.
Kendall described the practice as “despicable and abhorrent”, adding that it was “totally unacceptable” for any platform to profit from such content.
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