So far, US regulators have been quiet about Grok’s output, with the Justice Department generally promising to take all forms of CSAM seriously. On Friday, Democratic senators began to shift the tide, demanding that Google and Apple remove X and Grok from the App Store unless it improves security measures to prevent harmful output.
“There can be no mistake about X’s wisdom and, at best, reckless response to these trends,” the senators wrote in a letter to Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook and Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai. “Turning a blind eye to
Reply to the letter has been sought by January 23.
It remains to be seen whether the UK will accept X’s alleged solution. If UK regulator Ofcom decides to proceed with an investigation into whether Musk’s chatbot violates the UK’s Online Security Act, X could face a UK ban or a fine of up to 10 percent of the company’s global turnover.
“It’s illegal,” UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said of Grok’s worst output. “We will not tolerate this. I have asked for all options to be kept on the table. This is disgusting.
At least one UK Parliament member, Jess Asato, told The Guardian that even if X had put up a de facto paywall, it would not have been enough to end the investigation.
Asato said, “While this is a step forward in removing universal access to Grok’s disgusting nudity features, it still means that paying users can take images of women to sexually exploit and brutalize them without their consent.” “Paying women to have semen, pills or bikinis inserted into them is still digital sexual assault, and xAI should permanently disable this feature.”
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