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The technology minister is expected to address MPs about social media platform X after backing a possible ban on the UK banning the site from using its artificial intelligence tools to create deepfake images.
Liz Kendall Set to give a statement in House of Commons Controversy arose on Monday after reports emerged that Grok, a chatbot owned by Elon Musk, was digitally removing people’s clothes without their consent.
ministers expressed their distaste for the use of the tool for deepfakes and said they would support UK communications regulator Ofcom if it decided to block access to X due to non-compliance with online security laws.
Ofcom has contacted xAI, the creator of X and Grok, over the production of images of nudity and child pornography, and is conducting a “rapid assessment” of the companies’ response.
Tech tycoon Elon Musk, founder of Grok xAI and boss of the X social media platform that shares images, has accused the UK government of being “fascistic” and seeking to restrict free speech after ministers stepped up threats to effectively block his website.
Trade Secretary Peter Kyle, who previously served as technology secretary, defended the UK’s online safety bill but admitted “there is more to be done” to keep people safe online, “especially in places like X”.
He told Sky News: “Let me be clear, X is not doing enough to keep customers safe online.”
deputy prime minister David Lammy The Vice President of the United States said JD Vance Although Donald Trump’s free speech czar later likened the threat in Britain to Vladimir Putin’s Russia, he was sympathetic to efforts to address the images Gronk produced.
Lamy, who met Vance in the US on Thursday, told the Guardian he raised the issue of Grok “and the horrific, horrific circumstances in which this new technology is allowing deepfakes and manipulated images of women and children, which is absolutely abhorrent”.
“He agreed with me that it was totally unacceptable,” Mr Lamy said.
Sarah Rogers, the US State Department’s undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, later said the UK was “considering a Russian-style X ban to protect them from bikini images”.