Reference News website, January 11 report: According to Singapore's "Lianhe Zaobao" website, on January 11, the UK has escalated threats, possibly blocking the social media platform X due to pornographic images generated by the AI tool Grok. In response, the owner of the X platform, Musk, accused the UK government of being "fascist." Grok was developed by Musk's xAI company and is embedded in the social media platform X.
Bloomberg reported that in response to a chart claiming that the UK arrests more people for social media comments than any other country, Musk posted: "Why is the UK government so fascist?"
The UK regulator responsible for reporting online child sexual abuse material to law enforcement agencies pointed out that they found "criminal" images allegedly generated by Grok on the dark web. The Internet Watch Foundation said that pornographic images involving underage girls on the dark web have reached the threshold for law enforcement action.
Earlier this week, UK Prime Minister Starmer vowed to take action, demanding that the X platform "immediately clean up" these pornographic images.
On the 9th, the UK technology minister Kendall issued a statement saying that the media regulatory body should use "all legal powers" and warned that if the X platform refuses to comply with UK laws, the government could "block access to the X platform for people in the UK."
Punishing the X platform may anger the US government, which previously threatened to retaliate against organizations such as the EU to prevent them from limiting the power of American tech giants.
However, the UK Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy pointed out that he had discussed this incident with US Vice President Vance earlier this week, and Vance expressed concerns about the way this technology was being used.
Lammy told The Guardian after his trip to Washington: "I think he realized the seriousness of manipulating images of women and children in this way, and how despicable and unacceptable this behavior is. I found that he understood it."
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