The UK could ban Elon Musk’s X after its AI chatbot was linked to the creation of inappropriate images of women and children.
Sir Keir Starmer said he had asked media regulator Ofcom to consider “all options” after it emerged that child sexual abuse images had been generated using X’s AI chatbot, Grok.
Downing Street sources said the government could deploy the full powers of the Online Safety Act, which allow for multi-billion-pound fines or, in extreme cases, blocking access to platforms in the UK.
X has around 650 million users globally, including an estimated 20 million in the UK.
The Prime Minister said: “This is disgraceful. It’s disgusting and it’s not to be tolerated.
“X need to get their act together and get this material down – and we will take action on this because it’s simply not tolerable.”
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