A poster featuring an image of billionaire Elon Musk, calling for users of his X social media platform to delete their accounts due to the artificial intelligence chatbot Grok's image-creation feature, is seen at a bus stop in London on Tuesday. PARIS - Elon Musk's company xAI has faced global backlash in recent days over sexualized "deepfake" images of women and children created by its Grok chatbot. Here are the essential facts about the scandal, how governments have responded and the company's attempts to cool the controversy. Grok -- Musk's version of the chatbots also offered by OpenAI and other generative AI companies -- has its own account on the X social media network allowing users to interact with it. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.

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Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., advanced legislation in the Senate that would allow people to sue over explicit AI-generated deepfake images.

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Apple's Siri AI will be powered by Gemini A Season 1 extension update will arrive on January 20. Battlefield 6 players will have to wait almost a month longer for Season 2. (EA / Battlefield Studios) The second season of is being pushed back based on "community feedback." On Tuesday, EA and Battlefield Studios said Season 2 will now arrive on February 17. Season 2 of had previously been scheduled for January 20, so we're looking at a delay of almost a month. As a consolation, the team is extending Season 1 through the start of the next season.

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Scott Adams, the US cartoonist who wrote and illustrated the comic strip Dilbert, has died of cancer at the age of 68. His ex-wife Shelly Miles announced his death on Tuesday during a live stream of his podcast, Real Coffee with Scott Adams. The satirical cartoon strip - about a competent but frustrated engineer and his dysfunctional workplace environment - was first published in 1989, and went on to feature in more than 2,000 newspapers in 65 countries. The character also later appeared in books, an animated TV series and video game. But in 2023, his comic strip was cancelled by newspapers including the Washington Post after Adams was accused of making racist comments about black people.

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