Grok AI image editing limited to paid subscribers after reports of deepfakes

Image editing connected X's Grok AI instrumentality has been constricted to paid subscribers, according to a connection displayed by the chatbot.

Users were capable to upload a representation and inquire Grok to change the image, but the AI strategy present replies to requests with this message: "Image procreation and editing are presently constricted to paying subscribers."

If the alteration has been constricted to X subscribers, it would mean the institution would person the sanction and outgo details of those utilizing the relation connected file.

It comes aft the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) warned criminals utilized Grok to make kid intersexual maltreatment imagery.

"Following reports that the AI chatbot Grok has generated intersexual imagery of children, we tin corroborate our analysts person discovered transgression imagery of children aged betwixt 11 and 13 which appears to person been created utilizing the tool," said Ngaire Alexander, caput of hotline astatine the IWF.

X and xAI, some owned by billionaire Elon Musk, person travel nether occurrence successful caller days aft galore users, chiefly women, posted saying they had seen AI-generated intersexual images of themselves connected X.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said it was "disgraceful" and "disgusting".

He told X to "get their enactment together" and "get a grip connected this".

On Wednesday, Musk said a caller mentation of Grok had been released and urged users to update their app, though it was not instantly wide what updates the caller mentation contained.

The tech tycoon has antecedently insisted "anyone utilizing Grok to marque amerciable contented volition endure the aforesaid consequences arsenic if they uploaded amerciable content".

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X has said it takes enactment against amerciable content, including kid intersexual maltreatment material, "by removing it, permanently suspending accounts, and moving with section governments and instrumentality enforcement arsenic necessary".

Sky News has contacted X for comment.