AI-generated sexual deepfakes involve the synthetic creation or manipulation of images and videos to depict real or realistic individuals in sexualized or pornographic scenarios without their consent, including apparent minors. The topic spans technical failures and safeguards in generative models, platform-level moderation and labeling systems, and emerging legal frameworks governing criminal liability, online safety duties, and regulation of child sexual abuse material. It also encompasses governance debates over platform responsibility, user rights, and the adequacy of existing regulatory regimes for harmful AI-generated content.
Consumer & Gadgets
Elon Musk finally responded last week to widespread outrage about his social media platform X letting users create sexualized deepfakes with Grok, the platform's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot.
Jan 20, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
On December 14, 2025, a terrorist attack occurred at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, leaving 15 civilians and one gunman dead. While Australia was still reeling in shock, social media saw the rapid spread of misinformation ...
Jan 16, 2026
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Internet
Elon Musk's Grok keeps getting into trouble, and this time, more of the world's governments are trying to intervene.
Jan 16, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
A new evidence-based online educational tool aims to curb the watching, sharing, and creation of AI-generated explicit imagery.
Jan 15, 2026
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Business
Around the turn of the century, the internet underwent a transformation dubbed "web 2.0." The world wide web of the 1990s had largely been read-only: static pages, hand-built homepages, portal sites with content from a few ...
Jan 15, 2026
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Internet
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok won't be able to edit photos to portray real people in revealing clothing in places where that is illegal, according to a statement posted on X.
Jan 15, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
California on Wednesday began investigating whether Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has been letting users turn pictures of women and girls into salacious images.
Jan 14, 2026
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Business
The new image and video editing feature for xAI's chatbot, Grok, has generated thousands of non-consensual, sexually explicit images of women and minors since Grok announced the editing feature on Christmas Eve. It was promoted ...
Jan 14, 2026
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Security
A short, seemingly harmless command is all it takes to use Elon Musk's chatbot Grok to turn public photos into revealing images—without the consent of the people depicted. For weeks, users have been flooding the platform ...
Jan 14, 2026
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Business
Dr. Federica Fedorczyk, early career research fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI, works on AI regulation and ethics with a focus on the intersection between AI and the criminal justice system. In this article, she explores ...
Jan 14, 2026
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