Biggest change to Gmail in 20 years

news.com.au - Google has unveiled it will incorporate new AI tools to its popular email platform in a significant update that will impact billions of users. There are mixed reactions.

#ai #google #aiethics #genai #apps #ux #technology #assistant #updates #gemini

3 Uncomfortable Truths About Using Google Gemini

7 wks / bgr

Alleviating email overload with AI has been on my personal wishlist for a very long time. Excited to see these features rolling out - powered by Gemini. A fantastic example of how AI can be helpful in everyday life!

1 month / x / @demishassabis

Biggest change to Gmail in 20 years

1 month / news.com.au

Gmail gets Gemini, but falls short of true agentic AI

1 month / semafor / Rachyl Jones

Gmail launches AI inbox and overviews with Gemini

1 month / mashable

'Baldur's Gate 3' Game Studio Says 'Divinity' Won't Include AI-Generated Art

Jason Nelson / decrypt - Larian Studios head Swen Vincke said the upcoming RPG Divinity will not use generative AI art, though the studio still sees benefits to the tech.

#ai #gaming #entertainment #aiethics #genai #creativity #media #copyright

'Baldur's Gate 3' Game Studio Says 'Divinity' Won't Include AI-Generated Art

1 month / decrypt / Jason Nelson

'There is not going to be any GenAI art in Divinity': BG3 studio Larian draws line in the sand

1 month / reddit / /u/MetaKnowing

Baldur’s Gate 3 studio says it won’t use AI for concept art or writing

1 month / theverge / Ash Parrish

Larian Studios Will “Refrain From Using GenAI Tools” to Develop Concept Art, But Will Still Try Apply GenAI Tools Elsewhere

1 month / wccftech / David Carcasole

The U.S. government is punting on Grok’s undressing issue

Rebecca Heilweil / fastcompany - Grok’s digital undressing scandal is horrifying. In recent days, countless women, including the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, have found AI-generated and nonconsensual sexual images of themselves propagating across the web. According to one analy…

#ai #techpolicy #aiethics #genai #business #contentmoderation #xai #elonmusk #grokai #digitalprivacy

Deepfake Sexual Abuse Outcry (4)
Monetization and Paywall Tactics (8)
Other Scandals and Technical Woes (5)
Regulatory and Political Backlash (14)
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Deepfake Sexual Abuse Outcry

Why Elon Musk is laughing off Grok’s flood of deepfake AI porn

7 wks / fastcompany / Jay Willis

Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Sarees

1 month / wired / Kat Tenbarge

The latest on Grok’s gross AI deepfakes problem

1 month / theverge / Verge Staff

Elon Musk's Grok Faces Backlash Over Nonconsensual AI-Altered Images

1 month / cnet / Gael Cooper

Monetization and Paywall Tactics

X Restricts Grok's Image Generation to Paid Users After Global Backlash

1 month / reddit / /u/i-drake

Elon Musk Moves to Monetize Grok Deepfake Abuse, UK Calls It Insulting

1 month / gizmodo / Bruce Gil

X’s half-assed attempt to paywall Grok doesn’t block free image editing

1 month / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger

Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery

1 month / reddit / /u/Well_Socialized

X Didn't Fix Grok's ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It

1 month / wired / Matt Burgess

No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature

1 month / reddit / /u/Well_Socialized

Grok image generation is now paywalled on X amid AI "undressing" deepfake controversy

1 month / techspot

Limiting Grok AI image edits to paid users 'insulting' to victims, says UK Govt.

1 month / reddit / /u/Negative_Round_8813

Other Scandals and Technical Woes

Just like its dad, Grok keeps failing up

1 month / qz / Shannon Carroll

Grok Is In Massive Trouble

1 month / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

Why AI could mark the end of Big Tech's invincibility

1 month / semafor / Reed Albergotti

AI-coded malware arrives on the Mac through fake Grok AI app

1 month / appleinsider

The Grok Disaster Isn't An Anomaly. It Follows Warnings That Were Ignored.

1 month / techpolicy

Regulatory and Political Backlash

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Blocked in Indonesia Over Sexualized Content

1 month / bloomberg / Soraya Permatasari

‘Abhorrent’: PM slams Elon Musk’s Grok

1 month / news.com.au

X could be banned in UK amid sexualised AI images concerns

1 month / reddit / /u/PaiDuck

Is Apple’s ‘Safe’ App Store a Myth? Senators Want X Booted Over Grok Deepfakes

1 month / idropnews / Jesse Hollington

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards / X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?

1 month / reddit / /u/MarvelsGrantMan136

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

1 month / theverge / Elizabeth Lopatto

Grok and X should be suspended from Apple, Google app stores, Democratic senators say

1 month / cnbc

Senators urged Apple and Google to remove X and Grok from app stores over sexual deepfakes

1 month / reddit / /u/Well_Socialized

US Senators from the Democratic Party Urge Apple and Google to Remove X and Grok from App Stores Following Grok Generating Illegal Sexual Images at Scale

1 month / reddit / /u/CandidAd9457

Senators tell Apple to remove X & Grok from App Store because of AI-generated child porn

1 month / appleinsider

U.S. Senators Ask Apple and Google to Remove X and Grok Apps Over Sexualized Image Generation

1 month / macrumors / Eric Slivka

The U.S. government is punting on Grok’s undressing issue

1 month / fastcompany / Rebecca Heilweil

Democrats ask Apple and Google to remove X’s undressing bot from their app stores / Grok’s nonconsensual deepfakes violate the app stores’ terms of service, the senators argue.

1 month / reddit / /u/MarvelsGrantMan136

Democrats ask Apple and Google to remove X’s undressing bot from their app stores

1 month / theverge / Lauren Feiner

All Other Stories

Elon Musk needed three years to transform Twitter from maybe the world’s most important news source and a vital tool for real-world change into a weird right-wing AI slop machine generating on-demand bespoke nonconsensual porn. A real innovator in the spa

7 wks / bsky / @jaywillis.net / jaywillis.net

A substantial number of AI images generated or edited with Grok are targeting women in religious and cultural clothing. www.wired.com/story/grok-i...

1 month / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

New from @kattenbarge.bsky.social: X influencers are using Grok to unveil Muslim women in hijabs and show them being beaten by men. Women in sarees are also being stripped: www.wired.com/story/grok-i...

1 month / bsky / @manishakrishnan.bsky.social / manishakrishnan.bsky.social

www.theverge.com/news/859715/...

1 month / bsky / @djnoneya.bsky.social / djnoneya.bsky.social

Mosyle has identified a macOS malware campaign that uses generative AI-assisted code and spreads through a fake AI app download.

1 month / bsky / @appleinsider.com / appleinsider.com

The message also includes a link pushing people toward the social media platform’s $395 annual subscription tier. In one test of the system requesting Grok create an image of a tree, the system returned the same message.

1 month / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

The apparent change comes after days of growing outrage against and scrutiny of Musk’s X and xAI, the company behind the Grok chatbot. www.wired.com/story/x-didn...

1 month / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

The companies face an increasing number of investigations from regulators around the world over the creation of nonconsensual explicit imagery and alleged sexual images of children.

1 month / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

Neither X nor xAI, the Musk-owned company behind Grok, has confirmed that it has made image generation and editing a paid-only feature. An X spokesperson acknowledged WIRED’s inquiry but did not provide comment ahead of publication. Read the full story:

1 month / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

I would much rather have RAM than an AutoHarass Gold subscription www.wired.com/story/x-didn...

1 month / bsky / @subzerofrog.bsky.social / subzerofrog.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/x-didn... Seriously!

1 month / bsky / @beavington.bsky.social / beavington.bsky.social

Elon Musk's Grok AI image editing limited to paid users after deepfakes

bbc - It comes after government urged Ofcom to use all its powers – up to and including an effective ban – against X.

#ai #techpolicy #aiethics #genai #censorship #contentmoderation #xai #elonmusk #grokai #digitalprivacy

Government, regulatory scrutiny intensifies (4)
Monetization measures restrict free access (11)
Other analysis (1)
Sexual deepfakes and abuse scandals (8)
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Government, regulatory scrutiny intensifies

Canada’s AI minister condemns deepfake sexual abuse amid X nude images controversy

1 month / mobilesyrup / Bradly Shankar

EU and UK eye investigations into X over Grok’s lack of safeguards

1 month / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Grok told to cover up as UK weighs action over AI 'undressing'

1 month / theregister / Carly Page

Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot limits access to image generator that put women in bikinis

1 month / politico / Mathieu Pollet, Pieter Haeck

Monetization measures restrict free access

xAI Paywalls Grok Image Generation amid CSAM Outcry, UK Calls Move “Insulting”

1 month / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Grok says it has restricted image generation to subscribers after deepfake concerns. But has it?

1 month / mashable

Elon Musk makes Grok's sexualized AI images a 'premium service' for X subscribers

1 month / qz / Niamh Rowe

X restricts Grok’s image generation to paying subscribers only after drawing the world’s ire

1 month / techcrunch / Ram Iyer

Musk's Grok chatbot restricts image generation after global backlash to deepfakes

1 month / go

Grok Restricts Image Generation After Backlash Over Explicit AI Imagery

1 month / eweek / eWEEK Staff

Grok turns off AI image generation for non-payers after nudes backlash

1 month / techxplore

Image editing on Grok limited on X after users prompt AI deepfakes

1 month / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

Elon Musk's Grok AI image editing limited to paid users after deepfakes

1 month / reddit / /u/F0urLeafCl0ver

Elon Musk's Grok AI image editing limited to paid users after deepfakes

1 month / bbc

Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery

1 month / reddit / /u/qwerty_1965

Other analysis

Watch: Backlash against Musk's Grok AI explained

1 month / bbc

Sexual deepfakes and abuse scandals

How Elon Musk’s Grok spread sexual deepfakes and child exploitation images

1 month / ft

Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery

1 month / 404media / Samantha Cole

Grok, Elon Musk’s A.I., Is Generating Sexualized Images of Real People, Fueling Outrage

1 month / nytimes / Kate Conger and Lizzie Dearden

Elon Musk’s A.I. Is Generating Sexualized Images of Real People, Fueling Outrage

1 month / nytimes / Kate Conger,Lizzie Dearden

Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax

1 month / nytimes / nytimes

Grok’s Undressing Scandal + Claude Code Capers + Casey Busts a Reddit Hoax

1 month / nytimes / Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Whitney Jones, Rachel Cohn, Vjeran Pavic, Katie McMurran, Dan Powell, Mar

Elon Musk’s xAI restricts Grok after outcry over sexualised images

1 month / ft

Musk’s Grok Limits Image Generation to Paid Users on X

1 month / bloomberg / Amy Thomson

All Other Stories

Honeypot trap set for any attorney general willing to use it: www.404media.co/x-premium-gr...

1 month / bsky / @danny.page / danny.page

In an attempt to push more people toward a paying subscription, Grok now refuses to generate images in replies. The paywall is pretty leaky, though.

1 month / bsky / @404media.co / 404media.co

the art of the possible

1 month / bsky / @mjgault.bsky.social / mjgault.bsky.social

After years of trying to push subscriptions with meaningless verifications and making X so toxic it bleeds users by the millions, Elon Musk might have found a way: by monetizing abuse at the source. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. @samleecole.bsky.soci

1 month / bsky / @404media.co / 404media.co

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has restricted access to a much-criticized deepfake generator on social media platform X following a surge of users creating nonconsensual nude images.

1 month / bsky / @politico.eu / politico.eu

According to #TheTwit restricting the access to the image generator that has created multiple sexual images to premium subscribers (that will cost you 8 bucks a month) will help “ensure responsible use“ while they “grow” the platform. I am curious as to

1 month / bsky / @porpentina2017.bsky.social / porpentina2017.bsky.social

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Healthcare with US hospitals

Alexey Shabanov / testingcatalog - OpenAI introduces “OpenAI for Healthcare,” offering secure, HIPAA-compliant AI solutions tailored for hospitals and healthcare systems at scale.

#techpolicy #digitalhealth #apple #openai #aiethics #genai #health #chatgpt #us #digitalprivacy

OpenAI launches health portal for ChatGPT with Apple Health tie in

1 month / mobilesyrup / Matthew Mountjoy

Explained: OpenAI Announces ChatGPT Health, But Issues Persist With Health Advice from Chatbots

1 month / medianama / Prabhanu Kumar Das

OpenAI launches healthcare product line, signs up major US hospitals

1 month / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

OpenAI's Hospital Play Comes with a Warning from the Hospitals Themselves

1 month / implicator / Robert Brown

One-Minute Daily AI News 1/8/2026

1 month / reddit / /u/Excellent-Target-847

AI Misses Nearly One-Third of Breast Cancers, Study Finds

1 month / reddit / /u/CandidAd9457

OpenAI for Healthcare:

1 month / x / @gdb

real impact from ChatGPT for health:

1 month / x / @gdb

OpenAI Beats Apple to the Punch with ‘ChatGPT Health’

1 month / idropnews / Jesse Hollington

ChatGPT Health wants your sensitive medical records so it can play doctor

1 month / theregister / Thomas Claburn

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Healthcare with US hospitals

1 month / testingcatalog / Alexey Shabanov

Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?

John Gruber / wired - Caroline Haskins, writing for Wired (News+ link, in case Wired’s paywall blocks you): Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is being used to flood X withthousands of sexualized images of adults and apparentminors wearing minimal clothing. Some of this content appea…

#techpolicy #mobile #aiethics #genai #apps #contentmoderation #elonmusk #grokai #safety #regulation

App Store policies fuel Grok/X scrutiny (3)
Child exploitation concerns in explicit AI images (6)
Governments and regulators push back on AI abuse (3)
Industry clamor, opinions, and calls for bans (8)
All Other Stories

X’s deepfake machine is infuriating policymakers around the globe

Lauren Feiner / theverge - X's Grok chatbot hasn't stopped accepting users' requests to strip down women and, in some cases, apparent minors to AI-generated bikinis. According to some reports, the flood of AI-generated images includes more extreme content that potentially violates …

#ai #techpolicy #aiethics #genai #government #media #censorship #contentmoderation #grokai

Censorship and defaults: Debating AI safety and limits (2)
Deepfake surge: Undressing outputs spark explicit content alarm (4)
Media mix-up: Questioning Grok reportage inaccuracies (1)
Regulatory clampdown: Governments seek answers on explicit outputs (5)
All Other Stories

Censorship and defaults: Debating AI safety and limits

Grok’s Real Problem Isn’t the AI. It’s the Defaults.

1 month / implicator / Maria Garcia

AI model capabilities- to censor or not to censor?

1 month / reddit / /u/Creative-Bunch-9046

Deepfake surge: Undressing outputs spark explicit content alarm

Grok's AI Sexual Abuse Didn't Come Out of Nowhere

1 month / 404media / Samantha Cole

Grok is generating thousands of AI "undressing" deepfakes every hour on X

1 month / techspot

X’s deepfake machine is infuriating policymakers around the globe

1 month / theverge / Lauren Feiner

Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X

1 month / reddit / /u/MetaKnowing

Media mix-up: Questioning Grok reportage inaccuracies

Journalistic Malpractice: No LLM Ever ‘Admits’ To Anything, And Reporting Otherwise Is A Lie

1 month / techdirt / Mike Masnick

Regulatory clampdown: Governments seek answers on explicit outputs

Government accused of dragging its heels on deepfake law over Grok AI

1 month / bbc

Illegal Images Allegedly Made by Musk’s Grok, Watchdog Says

1 month / bloomberg / Olivia Solon

UK regulators swarm X after Grok generated nudes from photos

1 month / theregister / Connor Jones

MeitY Finds X’s Report on Grok ‘Undressing’ Images Inadequate, Seeks Takedown Info

1 month / medianama / Azdhan

Grok’s nudes test Europe’s resolve to stand up to US tech

2 months / politico / Pieter Haeck

All Other Stories

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1 month / bsky / @feed.www.404media.co.ap.brid.gy / feed.www.404media.co.ap.brid.gy

Google and Character.AI Agree To Settle Lawsuits Over Teen Suicides

BeauHD / slashdot - Google and Character.AI have agreed to settle multiple lawsuits from families alleging the chatbot encouraged self-harm and suicide among teens. "The settlements would mark the first resolutions in the wave of lawsuits against tech companies whose AI chat…

#google #aiethics #genai #health #psychology #law #media #technology #contentmoderation #litigation

Google and Character.AI Settle Teen Suicide Lawsuits

1 month / eweek / eWEEK Staff

Google, Character.AI Agree to Settle US Lawsuit Over Teen’s Suicide

1 month / decrypt / Vismaya V

Google and Character.AI Agree To Settle Lawsuits Over Teen Suicides

1 month / slashdot / BeauHD

Google, chatbot maker Character to settle suit alleging bot pushed teen to suicide

1 month / go

Character.AI and Google settle with families in teen suicide and self-harm lawsuits

1 month / engadget / Will Shanklin

Google and Character.AI to Settle Lawsuit Over Teenager’s Death

Natallie Rocha / nytimes - The settlement came in the case of a 14-year-old in Florida who had killed himself after developing a relationship with an A.I. chatbot.

#ai #techpolicy #google #aiethics #genai #health #law #contentmoderation #litigation #safety

Google, Character.AI agree to settle suits involving teen suicide

1 month / techxplore

Google and Character.AI to settle claims of AI-related teen deaths

1 month / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

One-Minute Daily AI News 1/7/2026

1 month / reddit / /u/Excellent-Target-847

The First AI Harm Settlements Arrive. The Harder Questions Remain.

1 month / implicator / Robert Brown

The settlements are among the first tied to lawsuits accusing AI companies of harming users.

1 month / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Google and Character.AI negotiate first major settlements in teen chatbot death cases

1 month / techcrunch / Connie Loizos

Google and Character.AI settle with families over claims their bots led to suicide. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/07/g...

1 month / bsky / @davelee.me / davelee.me

Google and Character.AI to Settle Lawsuit Over Teenager’s Death

1 month / nytimes / Natallie Rocha

Google and Character.AI to Settle Lawsuit Over Teenager’s Death

1 month / nytimes / Natallie Rocha

Character.AI and Google settle teen suicide and self-harm suits

1 month / theverge / Lauren Feiner

Google, Character.AI to settle suits involving minor suicides and AI chatbots

1 month / cnbc

Character.ai and Google agree to settle lawsuits over teen suicides

1 month / ft

Amazon’s AI agents spark backlash from retailers after listing their products without their knowledge

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Amazon.com Inc. has irked dozens of online retailers after using experimental artificial intelligence tools to scrape their websites and list their products on its sprawling online marketplace without their knowledge or consent. The tools in question incl…

#ai #ecommerce #dataprivacy #techpolicy #amazon #aiethics #genai #business #algorithm #regulation

Amazon’s AI Shopping Tool Faces Retailer Backlash Over Website Scraping

1 month / eweek / eWEEK Staff

Amazon's AI shopping tool lists products without seller permission

1 month / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Amazon’s AI agents spark backlash from retailers after listing their products without their knowledge

2 months / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Amazon accused of listing products from independent shops without permission

2 months / ft

Amazon AI Tool Blindsides Merchants by Offering Products Without Their Knowledge

2 months / bloomberg / Matt Day

Grok AI Sparks International Investigations After Creating Explicit Images of Children

eWEEK Staff / eweek - Elon Musk's initial reaction sparked additional controversy when he responded with laughing emojis to AI-generated bikini images.The post Grok AI Sparks International Investigations After Creating Explicit Images of Children appeared first on eWEEK.

#ai #techpolicy #aiethics #genai #governance #law #censorship #contentmoderation #grokai #digitalprivacy

Global Regulatory Crackdown (6)
Sexual Explicit Content Controversies (6)
All Other Stories

Global Regulatory Crackdown

X faces possible sanctions as Indonesia tightens AI rules

2 months / e27 / Sainul

Elon Musk faces new fight in Australia over 'abhorrent' deepfakes on Grok

2 months / capitalbrief / Finn McHugh

Elon Musk's AI Chatbot Grok Is Facing Potential Bans - Here's Why

2 months / bgr

EU Calls Grok's Child Images 'Illegal' as Global Crackdown Intensifies

2 months / decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz

Tracking Regulator Responses to the Grok 'Undressing' Controversy

2 months / techpolicy

Government demands Musk's X deals with 'appalling' Grok AI deepfakes

2 months / bbc

Sexual Explicit Content Controversies

AI chatbot Grok under fire for sexual images

1 month / semafor / Tom Chivers

Musk’s Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X

1 month / bloomberg / Cecilia D'Anastasio

Grok Is Pushing AI ‘Undressing’ Mainstream

2 months / wired / Matt Burgess, Maddy Varner

People are using Grok to create lewd images of women and young girls

2 months / fastcompany / Chris Stokel-Walker

Grok is undressing children — can the law stop it?

2 months / theverge / Hayden Field

Grok AI Sparks International Investigations After Creating Explicit Images of Children

2 months / eweek / eWEEK Staff

All Other Stories

New with @regret.bsky.social: Grok’s creation of harmful “undress” images is relentless. Even today, after days of scrutiny, Grok was churning out ‘bikini’ and underwear images of women every few seconds. Researchers estimate that Grok has become the

2 months / bsky / @mattburgess1.bsky.social / mattburgess1.bsky.social

The scale of the AI-fueled, nonconsensual sexualization of women in photos on X is staggering. The internet has suffered tools like this for years, but never at this scale, with this reach, and this out in the open. from @regret.bsky.social and @mattburge

2 months / bsky / @brbarrett.bsky.social / brbarrett.bsky.social

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has generated a flood of sexualized images of women and minors posted to the social media platform X. Regulators around the world are responding by opening inquiries, demanding takedowns, and threatening legal action. Tech Poli

2 months / bsky / @justinhendrix.bsky.social / justinhendrix.bsky.social

Viral Reddit Post About Food Delivery Apps Was an AI Scam

BeauHD / slashdot - A viral Reddit "whistleblower" post accusing a major food delivery app of systemic exploitation is "most likely AI-generated," reports the Verge. From the report: The original post by user Trowaway_whistleblow alleged that an unnamed food delivery company…

#ai #aiethics #genai #food #reddit #scam #media #contentmoderation #delivery

I reposted this a few days ago and it got spread around. It appears to be fabricated. When Casey Newton tried to do follow-up reporting, he was given AI generated fake evidence by the purported whistle-blower. www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...

2 months / bsky / @tom.eastman.nz / tom.eastman.nz

Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit

2 months / platformer / Casey Newton

Viral Reddit Post About Food Delivery Apps Was an AI Scam

2 months / slashdot / BeauHD

Viral Reddit post critical of food delivery apps may have been AI-generated

2 months / engadget / Ian Carlos Campbell

That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam

2 months / reddit / /u/Franco1875

DoorDash says it banned driver who seemingly faked a delivery using AI

2 months / reddit / /u/MetaKnowing

That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam

2 months / theverge / Elissa Welle

UK regulator asks X about reports its AI makes 'sexualised images of children'

bbc - Elon Musk's social media platform has warned users not to use Grok to generate illegal content.

#techpolicy #aiethics #genai #government #india #law #contentmoderation #xai #grokai #eu

Global Regulatory Investigations (6)
Other Coverage (1)
Platform Accountability (4)
Safe Harbour Policy Threats (3)
All Other Stories

Global Regulatory Investigations

Elon Musk's X faces probes in Europe, India, Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children

2 months / cnbc

Grok under investigation for sexualized deepfake generation

2 months / mashable

EU Condemns Musk’s Grok for Illegal Sexualized Images of Kids

2 months / bloomberg / Olivia Solon

UK regulator asks X about reports its AI makes 'sexualised images of children'

2 months / bbc

UK watchdog in ‘urgent contact’ with Musk’s X over AI-generated sexualized images of children

2 months / politico / Mizy Clifton

France and Malaysia investigate Grok for sexualized deepfakes

2 months / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Other Coverage

Grok's AI CSAM Shitshow

2 months / 404media / Jason Koebler

Platform Accountability

Elon Musk's xAI Refuses to Rein In Grok as Non-Consensual Deepfakes Run Wild

2 months / decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz

X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced

2 months / ycombinator

X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced

2 months / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger

Grok apologizes for sharing sexualized images of children

2 months / techxplore

Safe Harbour Policy Threats

From CSAM to Deepfakes: X Faces Safe Harbor Revoke Threat Over Grok’s Obscene Content

2 months / medianama / Azdhan

Centre Mulls Revoking X’s Safe Harbour Over Grok Misuse: Report

2 months / inc42 / Palak Sharma

One-Minute Daily AI News 1/4/2026

2 months / reddit / /u/Excellent-Target-847

All Other Stories

foreign regulators are on it - usa regulators mum on xAI Grok deepfake porn problems… www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/i...

2 months / bsky / @lorak.bsky.social / lorak.bsky.social

With Grok, Elon Musk has, in a perverse way, sort of succeeded at doing something Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman have tried: Running a social media site where AI is integrated and that people actually use. The major downsides? Yeah, a whole lot:

2 months / bsky / @404media.co / 404media.co

We are experiencing world events like the kidnapping of Maduro through the lens of the most depraved AI you can imagine.

2 months / bsky / @404media.co / 404media.co

All of this is bad: AI models are often trained on images of children, AI is used disproportionately against women, X is generally a cesspool, etc. Elon Musk of all people has not shown any indication that he remotely cares about any of this, and has ev

2 months / bsky / @404media.co / 404media.co

And as this is happening in realtime with real world events, mainstream media have demonstrated that they do not know or care to know the first thing about by writing articles about LLMs. There were dozens of articles explaining that “Grok apologizes,” w

2 months / bsky / @404media.co / 404media.co

www.404media.co/groks-ai-csa...

2 months / bsky / @tepski.tech / tepski.tech

Musk is now peddling paedophilia Anyone remaining on his X site is complicit in this absolute horror

2 months / bsky / @neilmackay.bsky.social / neilmackay.bsky.social

U.K. communications watchdog Ofcom is looking into whether X may be in breach of British online safety regulations following a series of reports that its AI chatbot Grok generated sexually explicit images of children.

2 months / bsky / @politico.eu / politico.eu

Microsoft CEO: Time To Move 'Beyond the Arguments of Slop vs Sophistication'

msmash / slashdot - The tech industry needs to move "beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication" and develop a new "theory of the mind" that accounts for humans now equipped with "cognitive amplifier tools," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote in a year-end reflection blog…

#ai #automation #ml #techpolicy #microsoft #aiethics #genai #business #jobs #technology

Satya Nadella starts blogging about AI, wants to move the conversation beyond "slop"

2 months / techspot

Microsoft's Risky Bet That Windows Can Become The Platform for AI Agents

2 months / slashdot / EditorDavid

"Microslop" trends in backlash to Microsoft's AI obsession

2 months / reddit / /u/Ha8lpo321

Microsoft CEO: Time To Move 'Beyond the Arguments of Slop vs Sophistication'

2 months / slashdot / msmash

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is now blogging about AI slop

2 months / reddit / /u/aacool

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadell becomes AI influencer, asks us all to move beyond slop

2 months / theregister / Thomas Claburn

Microsoft CEO Defends AI, Urges Critics to Move Beyond ‘Arguments of Slop’ - SE7EN.ws

2 months / se7en

Microsoft's Satya Nadella wants you to stop saying AI "slop" in 2026

2 months / reddit / /u/ZacB_

AI reality check: Why IT leaders must get practical

2 months / informationweek / Rikki Singh

France to investigate deepfakes of women stripped naked by Grok

Klara Durand, Océane Herrero, Émile Marzolf / politico - Hundreds of women and teenagers have reported their photos published on social media have been “undressed” by Grok.

#ai #computervision #aiethics #genai #law #contentmoderation #grokai #eu #digitalprivacy #regulation

Non-Consensual Image Alterations (5)
Platform Accountability & Liability (4)
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Non-Consensual Image Alterations

How Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping point

2 months / reddit / /u/Well_Socialized

Grok is undressing anyone, including minors

2 months / theverge / Elissa Welle

France to investigate deepfakes of women stripped naked by Grok

2 months / politico / Klara Durand, Océane Herrero, Émile Marzolf

Elon Musk's Grok AI alters images of women to digitally remove their clothes

2 months / bbc

Global outrage as X’s Grok morphs photos of women, children into explicit content

2 months / reddit / /u/F0urLeafCl0ver

Platform Accountability & Liability

MeitY Sends Notice To X Over Grok Non-Consensually Editing, Removing Clothing, From Pictures

2 months / medianama / Prabhanu Kumar Das

Users prompt Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot to remove clothes in photos then 'apologize' for it

2 months / theregister / Matt Rosoff

No, Grok can’t really “apologize” for posting non-consensual sexual images

2 months / arstechnica / Kyle Orland

Grok Responds to User Requests to Create Sexual Images of Women, Raising Platform Liability Concerns

2 months / medianama / Prabhanu Kumar Das

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French and Malaysian authorities are investigating Grok for generating sexualized deepfakes

2 months / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

The Policy Implications of Grok's 'Mass Digital Undressing Spree'

2 months / techpolicy

No, Grok can’t really “apologize” for posting non-consensual sexual images | Letting the unreliable Grok be its own “spokesperson” lets xAI off the hook.

2 months / reddit / /u/ControlCAD

French ministers report Grok's sex-related content on the X platform to prosecutors

2 months / reddit / /u/FinancialGarage245

Several French government ministers have reported the unlawful production of sexualised material without consent to the police and prosecutors. The UK government, which published a high profile strategy on misogyny just before Christmas, has yet to say or

2 months / bsky / @sundersays.bsky.social / sundersays.bsky.social

www.politico.eu/article/fran...

2 months / bsky / @sundersays.bsky.social / sundersays.bsky.social

As Grok is used to spread images of women and girls undressed, misogyny is being encouraged and reinforced by Twitter/X. Good to see the French authorities trying to act, but where is the British government on this? Does it have the stomach for this fight

2 months / bsky / @natashawalter.bsky.social / natashawalter.bsky.social

2026: Hunt Musk. Arrest Musk. Sue Musk. www.politico.eu/article/fran...

2 months / bsky / @h3d1.bsky.social / h3d1.bsky.social

French authorities to investigate Grok nude deepfakes www.politico.eu/article/fran...

2 months / bsky / @stevepeers.bsky.social / stevepeers.bsky.social

feels like a great pretext for countries to justify banning twitter/x if only the political and media classes didn’t continue believing there was some continued value to posting there

2 months / bsky / @parismarx.com / parismarx.com

Elon Musk's Grok AI posted CSAM image following safeguard 'lapses'

Steve Dent / engadget - Elon Musk's Grok AI has been allowing users to transform photographs of woman and children into sexualized and compromising images, Bloomberg reported. The issue has created an uproar among users on X and prompted an "apology" from the bot itself. "I deep…

#techpolicy #aiethics #genai #media #technology #contentmoderation #elonmusk #grokai #regulation

Grok Safeguard Failures (8)
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Regulatory Backlash (3)
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Grok Safeguard Failures

Elon Musk's Grok under fire for generating explicit AI images of minors

2 months / axios / Josephine Walker

xAI admits that Grok generated images of minors in minimal clothing, part of a larger problem with deepfakes

2 months / mashable

Grok Blames ‘Lapses In Safeguards’ After Posting Sexual Images Of Children

2 months / reddit / /u/MetaKnowing

Grok's image editing tool generated sexualized images of children, forcing xAI to acknowledge safety gaps

2 months / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot blames safeguard ‘lapses’ over child sexual images

2 months / ft

Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children

2 months / cnbc

Elon Musk's Grok AI posted CSAM image following safeguard 'lapses'

2 months / engadget / Steve Dent

Grok Posts Sexual Images of Minors After ‘Lapses in Safeguards’

2 months / bloomberg / Olivia SolonMark Bergen

Public Reactions

xAI silent after Grok sexualized images of kids; dril mocks Grok’s “apology”

2 months / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger

Regulatory Backlash

Grok CSAM Deepfakes: India Threatens to Revoke xAI’s Immunity as France Opens Criminal Probe

2 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

India orders Musk’s X to fix Grok over “obscene” AI content

2 months / techcrunch / Jagmeet Singh

MeitY Issues Notice To X Over Alleged Misuse Of Grok For Sexually Explicit Content

2 months / inc42 / Lokesh Choudhary

User-Driven Exploitation

People Spent the Holidays Asking Grok to Generate Sexual Images of Children

2 months / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

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Malaysia, France, India Hit Out at X for ‘Offensive’ Grok Images

2 months / bloomberg / Anisah Shukry

Grok is undressing anyone, including minors

2 months / reddit / /u/HellYeahDamnWrite

winbuzzer.com/2026/01/02/g... Grok CSAM Deepfakes: India Threatens to Revoke xAI’s Immunity as France Opens Criminal Probe #AI #Deepfakes #Regulation #ElonMusk #xAI #Grok #CSAM #TechPolicy #India #France #OnlineSafety #GenAI

2 months / bsky / @winbuzzer.com / winbuzzer.com

People Spent the Holidays Asking Grok to Generate Sexual Images of Children https://gizmodo.com/people-spent-the-holidays-asking-grok-to-generate-sexual-images-of-children-2000704919

2 months / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

This needs to happen in more countries and to any image service that’s indiscriminately generating CSAM (probably nonconsensual nudes too) techcrunch.com/2026/01/02/i...

2 months / bsky / @tcarmody.bsky.social / tcarmody.bsky.social

Everyone is reporting it, including the FT

2 months / bsky / @catiomiles.bsky.social / catiomiles.bsky.social

Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot blamed “lapses in safeguards” for the recent posting of artificial intelligence-generated sexualized pictures of children in response to user questions.

2 months / bsky / @brunojnavarro.bsky.social / brunojnavarro.bsky.social

I am absolutely serious when I say that newsrooms need to adopt strict style guides for reporting on generative AI, to avoid implying sentience or agency. @cnbc.com are you listening?

2 months / bsky / @unchi.org / unchi.org

Another strange one here because they put an actual quote from a staff member below the quote from the chatbot www.cnbc.com/2026/01/02/m...

2 months / bsky / @alexpartridge87.bsky.social / alexpartridge87.bsky.social

"Grok says"

2 months / bsky / @tryangregory.bsky.social / tryangregory.bsky.social

Sam Altman Offers $555K Salary To Fill Most Daunting Role In AI

BeauHD / slashdot - OpenAI is offering a $555,000 salary (plus equity) to recruit a new "head of preparedness," a high-pressure role tasked with anticipating and mitigating extreme AI risks. "This will be a stressful job, and you'll jump into the deep end pretty much immedia…

#ai #cybersecurity #innovation #openai #aiethics #jobs #security #technology

Editor: I'm not sure $555K is actually a competitive base if you have to live in the Bay Area. And - I wonder what valuation the equity component of comp is based on - you need to really believe in the upside here.

AI Preparedness Hiring (10)
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AI Preparedness Hiring

Sam Altman: ‘Stressful’ OpenAI Job Pays $555,000 Annually

2 months / eweek / J.R. Johnivan

OpenAI wants to hire someone to handle ChatGPT risks that can’t be predicted

2 months / digitaltrends

‘This will be a stressful job’: Sam Altman offers $555k salary to fill most daunting role in AI - The Guardian

2 months / theguardian

Sam Altman Offers $555K Salary To Fill Most Daunting Role In AI

2 months / slashdot / BeauHD

OpenAI offers $555,000 salary to protect humans from rogue AI

2 months / reddit / /u/TheTelegraph

ChatGPT maker hiring ‘head of preparedness’ to deal with dangerous AI - inkl

2 months / inkl

OpenAI is hiring an AI worrier-in-chief. The job pays $555,000

2 months / qz / Shannon Carroll

Sam Altman is willing to pay somebody $555,000 a year to keep ChatGPT in line

2 months / theregister / Brandon Vigliarolo

‘This will be a stressful job’: Sam Altman offers $555k salary to fill most daunting role in AI

2 months / reddit / /u/YesNo_Maybe_

OpenAI Hits the Headlines with Lavish $555K 'Head of Preparedness' Role - OpenTools

2 months / opentools

Sam Altman's Future Strategy

Seven Big Thoughts on OpenAI's Strategy & Future Following My Sam Altman Conversation

2 months / bigtechnology / Alex Kantrowitz

Sam Altman on OpenAI’s Plan to Win, AI Personalization, Infrastructure Math, and The Inevitable IPO

2 months / bigtechnology / Alex Kantrowitz

Enterprise Will Be a Top OpenAI Priority In 2026, Sam Altman Tells Editors at NYC Lunch

2 months / bigtechnology / Alex Kantrowitz

Meta Platforms buys Manus to bolster its agentic AI skillset

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Meta Platforms Inc. is pushing into autonomous artificial intelligence agents with the acquisition of Singapore-based Manus, which made headlines when it first emerged earlier this year for its ability to perform tasks using a web browser without human su…

#ai #startups #vc #ml #meta #aiethics #deeptech #asia #acquisitions #technology

Chinese Roots & Geopolitics (9)
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Chinese Roots & Geopolitics

Meta's purchase of Manus caps big year for Chinese AI

2 months / semafor / J.D. Capelouto

Meta just bought one of the fastest-growing AI startups you’ve probably never heard of

2 months / fastcompany / Taylor Hatmaker

Meta buys Chinese-founded AI start-up Manus

2 months / bbc

Meta Buys AI Agent Startup for $2 Billion, Says It Will Cut All Ties With China

2 months / gizmodo / Bruce Gil

Meta buys China-founded AI agent Manus

2 months / techxplore

China-founded AI-agent start-up Manus acquired by Zuckerberg’s Meta for ‘billions’

2 months / scmp

Meta buys Chinese-founded AI start-up Manus

2 months / ft

Meta Buys AI Startup Manus, Adding Millions of Paying Users

2 months / wsj / Angel Au-Yeung

Zuck buys Chinese AI company Manus that claims it deals in actions, not words

2 months / theregister / Simon Sharwood

Deal Metrics & Valuation Analysis

Meta to Acquire AI Startup Manus for $2 Billion

2 months / techstrong / Jon Swartz

Big Tech Momentum Holds at Year End With Meta Buying Manus

2 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

Meta buys startup known for its AI task automation agents

2 months / engadget / Steve Dent

Meta makes $2 billion bet on agentic AI with Manus acquisition

2 months / techspot

Meta to buy startup Manus, the latest deal in an AI M&A surge

2 months / semafor / Prashant Rao

Meta Pays $2 Billion for Singapore AI Startup Manus

2 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

Meta Just Bought Manus, an AI Startup Everyone Has Been Talking About

2 months / slashdot / BeauHD

Meta Buys What It Couldn't Build: Revenue Proof for AI Agents

2 months / implicator / Marcus Schuler

RT by @bgurley: Manus was acquired by Meta. This remarkable group of people created a product that was the fastest ever to go $0 to $100M ARR and changed how consumers used AI to get things done. It was an extraordinary privilege for me and Benchmark to h

2 months / x / @chetanp

Meta Integration & Product Expansion

Meta Buys Manus: Shifting Currents at Meta

2 months / substack / John Hwang

Meta buys startup Manus in latest move to advance its artificial intelligence efforts

2 months / go

Meta Acquires AI Startup Manus in $2B Deal, Plans Integration Across Facebook, WhatsApp

2 months / eweek / Aminu Abdullahi

Meta deal for Manus could be transformative à la Instagram and WhatsApp: analyst

2 months / x / @MarketWatch

Meta wants AI agents in your day-to-day, starting with Manus

2 months / digitaltrends

Meta Buys AI Startup Manus To Boost Advanced AI

2 months / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Meta buys its way into the AI agent race with Manus AI acquisition

2 months / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Meta just bought Manus, an AI startup everyone has been talking about

2 months / techcrunch / Connie Loizos

Manus to join Meta in acquisition deal

2 months / e27 / Anisa Menur

Meta acquires intelligent agent firm Manus, capping year of aggressive AI moves

2 months / cnbc

Meta Platforms buys Manus to bolster its agentic AI skillset

2 months / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Meta acquires Manus to expand its AI Agents platform

2 months / testingcatalog / Erin

ManusAI Joins Meta

2 months / ycombinator

Meta to Buy Startup Manus, Adding AI Agents to Woo Business

2 months / bloomberg / Kurt Wagner

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Meta × Manus: The misread AI deal

2 months / e27 / Holo Zheng

Meta’s multibillion Manus buyout draws plaudits, but raises spectre of a China AI exodus

2 months / scmp

Meta’s next big AI bet: Manus

2 months / therundown / Zach Mink

Meta Expands AI Portfolio As It Acquires Agentic AI Company Manus

2 months / medianama / Azdhan

How Meta’s Newest Acquisition Target Got Around Worries Over Its Ties to China

2 months / wsj / Raffaele Huang

One-Minute Daily AI News 12/30/2025

2 months / reddit / /u/Excellent-Target-847

The amount of AI slop and brainrot videos on YouTube is shocking

digitaltrends - A Kapwing study reveals how AI slop has become a global presence on YouTube, with billions of views and growing influence across multiple markets.The post The amount of AI slop and brainrot videos on YouTube is shocking appeared first on Digital Trends.

#ai #aiethics #genai #youtube #chatgpt #internet #media #contentmoderation #algorithm #digitalprivacy

Instagram's Head Just Admitted Defeat on AI Slop—And Wants Camera Makers to Fix It

2 months / implicator / Marcus Schuler

AI-powered software is helping misinformation spread online after disasters

2 months / npr / Justin Hicks

En España somos los reyes de los canales de youtube de la «IA basura» (slop) caracterizada por vídeos de baja calidad, poco auténticos o imprecisos. En el Top #100 español hay 8 canales dedicados principalmente a estas mierdas, con 20+ millones de suscri

2 months / bsky / @microsiervos.com / microsiervos.com

The amount of AI slop and brainrot videos on YouTube will shock you

2 months / digitaltrends

YouTube's 'AI slop' takeover

2 months / therundown / Zach Mink

Explained: Why YouTube’s AI Trailer Channel Takedowns Don’t Solve the AI Slop or Copyright Problem

2 months / medianama / Azdhan

★ Slop Is Slop

2 months / daringfireball / John Gruber

The amount of AI slop and brainrot videos on YouTube is shocking

2 months / digitaltrends

AI Conquers YouTube: Nearly 33% of Your Feed Is Now Fake Content

2 months / eweek / eWEEK Staff

AI slop is taking over the internet — and it’s here to stay

2 months / x / @MarketWatch

AI slop is taking over the internet. And it’s here to stay

2 months / x / @MarketWatch

More than 20% of YouTube's feed is now "AI slop," report finds

2 months / reddit / /u/AdSpecialist6598

UK Accounting Body To Halt Remote Exams Amid AI Cheating

msmash / slashdot - The world's largest accounting body is to stop students being allowed to take exams remotely to crack down on a rise in cheating on tests that underpin professional qualifications. From a report: The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), …

#ai #cybersecurity #elearning #aiethics #business #uk #education #technology

Editor: Is it AI cheating, or AI productivity boosting? Accounting is about the application of rules and judgment en masse - it strikes me that the exams need to test student's ability to validate their sources (is the model's output factually correct?) and apply their own judgment - or validate the model's work. I wonder how much of the problem here is poor test design methodology.

UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating

2 months / reddit / /u/rezwenn

UK Accounting Body To Halt Remote Exams Amid AI Cheating

2 months / slashdot / msmash

AI fraud forces world's largest accounting body to end online exams

2 months / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating

2 months / ycombinator

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