Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok, citing the risk of non-consensual sexual deepfakes, becoming the first country to block the AI tool
Indonesia temporarily blocked Elon Musk's Grok chatbot on Saturday due to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the first country to deny access to the AI tool.
Grok says image generation and editing are now limited to paid subscribers, after outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery
I suppose a subscription CSAM app might be the way MECHAHITLER manages to make money …Matthew Broersma /Silicon UK:EU Extends X Retention Order Over Sexualised ImagesThe Guardian:T...
X is restricting Grok's image capabilities via the @grok command for free users, but they can still create sexual deepfakes via X's “Edit image” or Grok's app
X's sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.
The UK government says X restricting Grok's image creation to paid users is insulting as it just makes the ability to generate unlawful images a premium service
Spokesperson says limiting access to paying subscribers just makes ability to generate unlawful images a premium service. www.theguardian.com/technology/ 2...@jf2u:So... in moving ...
Grok says image generation and editing are now limited to paid subscribers, after outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery
X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action
Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok, citing the risk of non-consensual sexual deepfakes, becoming the first country to block the AI tool
Indonesia temporarily blocked Elon Musk's Grok chatbot on Saturday due to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the first country to deny access to the AI tool.
The UK government says X restricting Grok's image creation to paid users is insulting as it just makes the ability to generate unlawful images a premium service
Spokesperson says limiting access to paying subscribers just makes ability to generate unlawful images a premium service
Grok says image generation and editing are now limited to paid subscribers, after outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery
X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action
How “cash to crypto” swaps allow users everywhere to convert local currencies to stablecoins and then to debit cards, avoiding financial oversight and sanctions
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t... Ken Caldeira / @kencaldeira.com : Is there any purpose to cryptocurrency other than to facilitate criminal activity? — www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/...
X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not “censorship” of viewpoints
from the it's-almost-as-if-there-are-some-bad- actors-online dept — For the last few years, Matt Taibbi …
AWS says services have “returned to normal operations” after a US-EAST-1 outage, first reported on October 20 at 3:11am ET, that affected major services
Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday that took down numerous major websites.
Letter: the US Treasury says China-backed hackers gained access to some Treasury workstations and unclassified docs; a vendor notified it of the hack on Dec. 8
FBI Investigation Underway, China Suspected Huileng Tan / Business Insider : The US Treasury says some computers were breached by China-backed hackers United States Department of t...