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Italy Fines Cloudflare 14 Million Euros For Refusing To Filter Pirate Sites On Public 1.1.1.1 DNS

BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Italy's communications regulator AGCOM imposed a record-breaking 14.2 million-euro fine on Cloudflare after the company failed to implement the required piracy blocking measures. Cloudflare argued tha…

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Italy Fines Cloudflare 14 Million Euros For Refusing To Filter Pirate Sites On Public 1.1.1.1 DNS

1 month / slashdot / BeauHD

Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS

1 month / arstechnica / Jon Brodkin

Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines

1 month / ycombinator

Italy Fines Cloudflare €14 Million for Refusing to Filter Pirate Sites on Public 1.1.1.1 DNS

1 month / reddit / /u/CandidAd9457

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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.


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


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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

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