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Elon Musk’s X is acting to comply with UK safety laws and the government “won’t back down”, Sir Keir Starmer has said.
The prime minister told PMQs that the nonconsensual sex images produced by the platform’s Grok AI tool are “disgusting” and “shameful” .
Politics Live: Elon Musk is complying with UK law in relation to Grok image abuse
He added that X’s decision to turn its AI image editing tool into a premium service was “horrific” and ministers are “absolutely determined to take action”.
Responding to a question from Labour MP Emily Darlington, Sir Keir said: “I have been informed this morning that X is acting to ensure full compliance with UK law.
“If so, that is welcome, but we’re not going to back down, and they must act.
“We will take the necessary measures. We will strengthen existing laws and prepare for legislation if it needs to go further, and Ofcom will continue its independent investigation.”
Read more: Everything you need to know about Grok controversy
After the prime minister’s comments, Mr Musk wrote on X: “I not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok. Literally zero.
“Obviously, Grok does not spontaneously generate images, it does so only according to user requests. When asked to generate images, it will refuse to produce anything illegal, as the operating principle for Grok is to obey the laws of any given country or state.
“There may be times when adversarial hacking of Grok prompts does something unexpected. If that happens, we fix the bug immediately.”
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