Lammy says Vance thinks sexualised AI deepfakes 'entirely unacceptable'

David Lammy has said that US vice president JD Vance agrees that sexualised AI-generated deepfakes - specified arsenic those made utilizing Elon Musk's Grok - are "entirely unacceptable".

The lawman premier minister told The Guardian that Mr Vance expressed interest astir however artificial intelligence was being utilized to make "hyper-pornographied slop" online erstwhile they met successful Washington connected Thursday.

After discussing Greenland, Mr Lammy said: "I besides raised with him the Grok issue and the horrendous, horrific concern successful which this caller exertion is allowing deepfakes and the manipulation of images of women and children, which is conscionable perfectly abhorrent.

"He agreed with maine that it was wholly unacceptable."

Since the commencement of the caller year, X users - chiefly women - person reported that accounts person utilized Grok to make images of them without clothing.

And earlier this week, the Internet Watch Foundation reported that criminals person been utilizing Grok to make kid intersexual maltreatment imagery.

X appeared to person changed Grok's settings successful response, with a connection displayed by the instrumentality saying representation editing and procreation had been limited to paid subscribers.

But these changes were described arsenic "insulting" by Downing Street, portion Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said that X needed "to get a grip of" Grok, and helium had asked media regulator Ofcom for "all options to beryllium connected the table".

Appearing defiant, Musk later shared 1 X user's station criticising the Labour authorities for seemingly focusing connected his platform, pointing to claims of different AI programmes creating non-sexualised images of women successful bikinis.

"They privation immoderate excuse for censorship," the tech billionaire said. Musk had besides antecedently said connected X that anyone utilizing Grok ⁠to marque amerciable contented would endure ‌the aforesaid consequences arsenic if they ‍had uploaded it.

In the interrogation with The Guardian, Mr Lammy said that helium felt Mr Vance "recognised the precise seriousness with which images of women and children could beryllium manipulated successful this way".

The lawman premier curate past added: "He recognised however despicable, unacceptable, that is and I recovered him sympathetic to that position. And successful fact, we've been successful interaction again, today, astir this precise superior issue."

"He confirmed with maine that helium had seen that determination had been immoderate changes announced by X arsenic of this morning."

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Sources astatine the gathering successful Washington besides told the outlet that Mr Vance raised concerns astir the usage of AI and however it was fuelling "hyper-pornographied slop".

As of writing, Mr Vance - who has been a long-standing proponent of AI exertion - has not commented publically connected Grok.