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Please note: The situation surrounding AI-generated imagery and platform regulation is very dynamic. Information can change rapidly. I’m basing this on the best available data as of today.
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“This new criminal offence will make it illegal for companies to supply tools designed to create non-consensual intimate images, targeting the problem at its source,” she said.
“In addition to all of these actions, we expect technology companies to introduce the steps recommended by Ofcom’s guidance on how to make platforms safer for women and girls without delay.
“If they do not, I am prepared to go further.”
Legal expert Jamie Hurworth said Kendall’s comments were “an indicator of how seriously the government are now taking this issue”.
“It remains to be seen whether an overstretched police force has sufficient resources to investigate and bring perpetrators before the courts but it is vital that each link in the chain – from individual creators to social media platforms – is held to account for their involvement in this type of behavior.”
Following on from the technology secretary’s comments in the Commons, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer told the Parliamentary Labor Party: “If X cannot control Grok, we will – and we’ll do it fast because if you profit from harm and abuse, you lose the right to self regulate.”
Ofcom’s investigation will examine whether X has failed to take down illegal content quickly when it became aware of it, and taken “appropriate steps” to prevent people in the UK from seeing it.
The decision follows a global backlash over Grok’s image creation feature,with both Malaysia and Indonesia temporarily blocking access to the tool over the weekend.
An ofcom spokesperson did not give an indication on how long the investigation would take but said it would be a “matter of the highest priority”.
In a response to an earlier post questioning why other AI platforms were not being looked at, Elon Musk said the UK government wanted “any excuse for censorship”.
But Kendall refuted this.
“This is not, as some would claim, about restricting freedom of speech,” she said.
“It is indeed about tackling violence against women and girls.”