European countries are taking their broadest swipe yet at social media, with a growing number weighing bans of the services for minors and setting the stage for a new showdown with some of the biggest U.S. companies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/05/world/society/ban-social-media-kids-europe/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #socialmedia #instagram #facebook #snap #tiktok #youtube #grok #europe #france #spain #australia
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A coalition of nonprofits is demanding that the U.S. government block Grok — the chatbot that was accused of generating thousands of nonconsensual explicit images per hour, which were then disseminated on X — from being used in federal agencies. @Techcrunch has more:
#Tech #X #Grok #AI #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #ElonMusk
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"Hiszpański premier Pedro #Sánchez:
Od przyszłego tygodnia mój rząd wprowadzi następujące działania:
Po pierwsze, zmienimy prawo w Hiszpanii, aby pociągać kierownictwo platform do odpowiedzialności prawnej za wiele naruszeń mających miejsce na ich stronach.
Po drugie, manipulowanie algorytmami i wzmacnianie nielegalnych treści stanie się nowym przestępstwem.
Po trzecie, wdrożymy system śledzenia, kwantyfikacji i ujawniania śladów mowy nienawiści i polaryzacji, aby śledzić, jak platformy cyfrowe podsycają podziały i wzmacniają nienawiść.
Po czwarte, Hiszpania zablokuje dostęp do mediów społecznościowych osobom poniżej 16 roku życia. Platformy będą zobowiązane do wdrożenia skutecznych systemów weryfikacji wieku – nie tylko pól wyboru, ale prawdziwych barier, które będą działać.
Po piąte i ostatnie, mój rząd będzie współpracował z prokuraturą w celu zbadania i ścigania naruszeń popełnionych przez Grok, TikTok i Instagram."
#Hiszpania #Europa #BigTech #Grok #Twitter #X #Instagram #polityka #SocialMedia #TikTok
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Politicians [in Cornwall] agree to stop using social media site [X]
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdx479625dno
> A town council in Cornwall has agreed to stop using a social media platform for official business.
> "Twitter just doesn't feel like a place where responsible organisations should be touting their wares or aligning their values with."
> Erewash Borough Council in Derbyshire also made the decision to stop using the "unsafe" social media platform in January.
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French police raided the offices of Elon Musk’s social media network X on Tuesday, and prosecutors ordered the tech billionaire to face questions in a widening investigation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/02/04/tech/paris-cybercrime-x-musk/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #france #ai #elonmusk #socialmedia #deepfakes #grok
Elon Musk’s flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people even when users explicitly warn that the subjects do not consent. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/02/03/tech/grok-sexual-images-no-consent/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #ai #grok #elonmusk #sexualharassment #privacy
🇪🇸 Za ClashReport:
"Hiszpański premier Pedro #Sánchez:
Od przyszłego tygodnia mój rząd wprowadzi następujące działania:
Po pierwsze, zmienimy prawo w Hiszpanii, aby pociągać kierownictwo platform do odpowiedzialności prawnej za wiele naruszeń mających miejsce na ich stronach.
Po drugie, manipulowanie algorytmami i wzmacnianie nielegalnych treści stanie się nowym przestępstwem.
Po trzecie, wdrożymy system śledzenia, kwantyfikacji i ujawniania śladów mowy nienawiści i polaryzacji, aby śledzić, jak platformy cyfrowe podsycają podziały i wzmacniają nienawiść.
Po czwarte, Hiszpania zablokuje dostęp do mediów społecznościowych osobom poniżej 16 roku życia. Platformy będą zobowiązane do wdrożenia skutecznych systemów weryfikacji wieku – nie tylko pól wyboru, ale prawdziwych barier, które będą działać.
Po piąte i ostatnie, mój rząd będzie współpracował z prokuraturą w celu zbadania i ścigania naruszeń popełnionych przez Grok, TikTok i Instagram."
#Hiszpania #Europa #BigTech #Grok #Twitter #X #Instagram #polityka #SocialMedia #TikTok
Ich frage mich ja immer, ob die deutschen Politiker:innen auch nen Account auf #Pornhub haben? So nach dem Motto: "Man muss die Menschen ja da abholen, wo sie sich aufhalten!"
Nur bin ich mir bei Pornhub zuversichtlicher, dass man die Moderation bzgl Deepfakes und CSAM weitaus ernster nimmt, als auf Musks Hassschleuder
@pallenberg Golem schreibt, dass bei Grok die Richtlinien für sexualisierten Inhalt gelockert wurden:
https://www.golem.de/news/entgegen-aller-warnungen-sexualisierung-von-grok-wurde-gezielt-vorgenommen-2602-204942.html
Quelle ist ein Artikel der Washington Post, leider hinter der Paywall.
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French police raided the #Paris offices of #ElonMusk’s #X Tuesday & summoned the #tech #billionaire for questioning as part of a widening probe into the #socialmedia company & its #AI chatbot #Grok.
The search was linked to an investigation opened in January 2025, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday, adding that its #cybercrime unit conducted the #raid with help from #Europol.
#law #regulation #Musk #xAI #content #moderation #safety #abuse
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/business/x-paris-prosecutor-raid-intl
1/2 "The French offices of Elon Musk's #X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography."
I'm proud to live in a country and democracy that those criminals hate! https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3ex92557jo
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French police raided the #Paris offices of #ElonMusk’s #X Tuesday & summoned the #tech #billionaire for questioning as part of a widening probe into the #socialmedia company & its #AI chatbot #Grok.
The search was linked to an investigation opened in January 2025, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday, adding that its #cybercrime unit conducted the #raid with help from #Europol.
#law #regulation #Musk #xAI #content #moderation #safety #abuse
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/business/x-paris-prosecutor-raid-intl
Billionaire with no real friends has his people build a very expensive chatbot to suck up to him. It is so expensive and so unpopular that he proceeds to turn it into a porn generator, accidentally or intentionally including child pornography. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/02/elon-musk-grok-porn-generator/
When even that fails, he merges the chatbot and the social media plattform he also ruined with a profitable business to cover the horrendous cost. #Musk #Grok #xAI
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/technology/spacex-xai-deal.html
A coalition of nonprofits is demanding that the U.S. government block Grok — the chatbot that was accused of generating thousands of nonconsensual explicit images per hour, which were then disseminated on X — from being used in federal agencies. @Techcrunch has more:
#Tech #X #Grok #AI #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #ElonMusk
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Weeks before #ElonMusk officially left his perch in government last spring, employees on the #human #data team of his #ArtificialIntelligence start-up #xAI received a startling #waiver from their employer, asking them to pledge to work with profane #content, including sexual material.
#law #regulation #tech #AI #Musk #Grok #moderation #safety #abuse #pedophilia
Tim Chambers
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Inside #Musk’s bet to hook users that turned #Grok into a porn generator
Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s #xAI loosened its guardrails & relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.
#law #regulation #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #content #moderation #safety #abuse #pedophilia
https://wapo.st/45DcMMI
Their concerns proved prescient, the employees said. In the next few months, team members were suddenly exposed to a stream of sexually charged audio, including lewd conversations that #Tesla occupants had with the car’s #chatbot & other users’ sexual interactions with #Grok #chatbots, said one of the people, a manager. The material surfaced as the team worked to train Grok to engage in such interactions.
#law #regulation #Musk #xAI #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #content #moderation #abuse
Since leaving his role overseeing the #US #DOGE Service in May, #Musk has become a constant presence at #xAI’s offices—at times sleeping there overnight [undoubtedly whacked out on #ketamine] —as he has pressed to increase #Grok’s popularity…. In meeting after meeting he has championed a new metric, “user active seconds,” to granularly measure how long people spent conversing with the #chatbot, acc/to 2 of the people.
#law #regulation #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #content #moderation #abuse
The #waiver, which 2 former employees confirmed receiving & a copy of which was obtained by WaPo—was alarming to some members on the team, who had been hired to help shape how #xAI’s #chatbot #Grok responds to users. To some employees, it signaled a troubling new direction for a company launched “to accelerate human scientific discovery,” acc/to its website. Maybe now, they said they thought, it was willing to produce whatever #content might attract & keep users.
#law #regulation #Musk #tech #AI
Their concerns proved prescient, the employees said. In the next few months, team members were suddenly exposed to a stream of sexually charged audio, including lewd conversations that #Tesla occupants had with the car’s #chatbot & other users’ sexual interactions with #Grok #chatbots, said one of the people, a manager. The material surfaced as the team worked to train Grok to engage in such interactions.
#law #regulation #Musk #xAI #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #content #moderation #abuse