X changes Grok to comply with UK law banning deepfakes | ABC NEWS
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says social media platform X is taking steps to ensure full compliance with UK law after the country’s media watchdog launched an investigation into its chatbot Grok’s capacity to generate sexually explicit images of real people.
The company was accused of breaching its duty to protect people from illegal content.
Elon Musk says his platform will ‘always comply’ with local laws in the countries in which it operates.
The British parliament has passed new legislation criminalising sexual deepfake images.
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