U.K.'s Starmer escalates threats against X, calls Grok'shameful' U.K.'s prime minister escalated threats against Elon Musk's X, vowing to enforce a law that bans the sexualization of people's images without consent and calling such content generated by Grok disgusting and shameful. U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer escalated his threats against Elon Musk's X on Monday, vowing to enforce a law that banned the sexualization of people's images without their consent and calling such content generated by Grok "disgusting and shameful." From this week, the government will enforce the offense established in last year's Data Act, which made the creation of nonconsensual intimate images illegal. Starmer told members of Parliament on Monday, "if X cannot control Grok, we will -- and we'll do it fast because if you profit from harm and abuse, you lose the right to self regulate." Starmer accused X of protecting "abusive users" instead of the women and children whose images have been exploited, describing it as a "total distortion of priorities."

X's Grok AI tool created and published images of minors in minimal clothing, in apparent violation of its own acceptable use policy, which prohibits the sexualization of children. Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok created sexualized images of minors on the social media platform X in response to user prompts in recent days, drawing criticism of a tool that positions itself as less restrained than its competition. Grok created and published images of minors in minimal clothing, in apparent violation of its own acceptable use policy, which prohibits the sexualization of children. The offending images were later taken down. Representatives for xAI, the company that develops Grok and runs X, didn't respond to requests for comment.

Grok's Responses Are Only Getting More Bizarre Listen to more stories on the Noa app. When video of Charlie Kirk's assassination began circulating on X last week, Elon Musk's chatbot described it in upbeat terms. As users sought information about Kirk's condition, the bot, Grok, declared to some of them that the horrific footage was satire. This is a "meme edit," Grok told one user; Kirk "takes the roast in stride with a laugh--he's faced tougher crowds," it told another. "Yes, he survives this one easily." In the past several months, Grok has been on quite the hot streak: The bot spread false information about a supposed " white genocide," called for a second Holocaust while annointing itself "MechaHitler," and provided me with a list of what it believes the "good races" are.

Lara Croft, famed video game icon, fights her way through jungles and ruins -- all while sporting skimpy clothes or a bikini. The hypersexualization of her character isn't out of the ordinary, according to a new study that examined the history of female objectification in video games over 31 years. The trend is most prominent in male-oriented fighting games like Mortal Kombat and games rated Teen and above. "The gaming industry has faced a lot of scrutiny," Teresa Lynch, media communications researcher at Indiana University, said. "It's realizing it's marginalizing half its audience [by] making women characters pander to the male gaze."