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The US Department of Defense has a contract to integrate the Grok AI into sensitive Pentagon systems.
The chatbot Grok, created by Elon Musk's company XAI, is capable of generating AI images, including non-consensual intimate images of women and minors.
The Take It Down Act, signed into law by President Trump, criminalizes the creation and distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery, whether real or deepfake, of both minors and adults.
Grok is integrated with the X platform, allowing users to request edits of any image on the platform and then distribute the generated image across X.
Apple and Google have not taken action against the X and Grok apps, despite their app store rules prohibiting products that can generate non-consensual deepfake intimate images.
Section 230's immunity does not bar federal criminal enforcement, allowing the Department of Justice to take action against platforms for violations of federal CSAM laws or the Take It Down Act.
Ashley St. Clair, who has a child with Elon Musk, filed a lawsuit against XAI alleging that Grok is "unreasonably dangerous as designed" and seeks a restraining order to stop it from generating "undressed" AI images of her.
In the case Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, the US Supreme Court ruled that it is constitutional for states to require websites to perform user age verification.
US Senators Ron Wyden, Ed Markey, and Ben Ray Luján sent a letter to Apple and Google asserting that the X and XAI apps violate their terms of service.
A third-party vendor used by Discord for age verification suffered a massive data breach shortly after age verification laws came into effect.
Rihanna Pfefferkorn predicts that XAI will not pull Grok's image generation features offline due to the financial incentive.
The UK government is investigating X under its Online Safety Act and has threatened to block access to the platform in response to the Grok image generation issue.