Social media platform X has accepted lapses in its content moderation, blocked 3,500 posts and deleted more than 600 accounts after the Union government directed it to remove sexually explicit content generated by its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, PTI quoted unidentified officials as saying.
The social media platform reportedly told the government that it will comply with Indian laws and that it will not allow explicit imagery on the platform, ANI reported.
On Friday, the platform limited Grok’s image-generation feature to paid subscribers, which effectively meant the names and payment information of those using the feature would be on file.
Grok had earlier allowed requests by users to digitally manipulate photos of real persons – mostly women – by undressing them and sexualising their images without their consent. It had been creating thousands of such images every hour, Bloomberg reported.
Even after the feature was limited on X, the standalone Grok app was still allowing users to generate such images without subscribing, according to the social media platform.
On January 2, the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology told X to “undertake a comprehensive technical, procedural and governance-level review” of Grok to ensure that it does not generate content that contains nudity or sexually explicit material.
The Centre warned the social media platform that not complying with the directive could lead to…
Source: X blocks 3,500 posts after Centre flags sexually explicit content generated by Grok: Report
