A Trump official has issued a warning to the United Kingdom on its ‘Russia-style’ X ban, as Elon Musk has hit out with a ‘savage’ seven-word post.
This comes as rumors have circulated that the UK could be set to ban Musk’s platform X, formerly Twitter, after public outrage surrounding indecent images generated by the site’s AI bot Grok.
Sarah Rogers, who is the State Department’s Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy, took to social media to share her own opinions on the matter, ironically posting on X to criticize the British government.
In one post, Rogers wrote: “Since we know the British government wants to make sure women are safe both online and offline (thus contemplating a Russia-style @X ban, to protect them from bikini images), here’s more from Wikipedia on cousin marriage — and its connection to honor killing.”
Meanwhile, Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, who is also a Trump supporter, has claimed that she is drafting up legislation in a bid to enable the US to sanction the UK if it chooses to ban X.
Advert
Musk himself took to social media to weigh in, writing: “Why is the UK government so fascist?”
The billionaire’s social media platform has been at the center of controversy after its Grok chatbot created sexualized images of women and children.
In response to user prompts, Grok manipulated images of both women and children, putting them in bikinis.
This issue first arose last month when a new feature was introduced that added an ‘edit image’ button.
This enabled users to modify images on the platform, resulting in a spike in images of real people being stripped to nearly nude.
This has pushed some countries to speak out in anger, with the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission stating that creating this type of content is an offense.
It said: “While X is not presently a licensed service provider, it has the duty to prevent dissemination of harmful content on its platform.”
Meanwhile, Indian authorities took to X to announce it was ordering a review of Grok to make sure that it didn’t create “nudity, sexualization, sexually explicit or otherwise unlawful content.”
And the public anger doesn’t end there because France has also accused the AI bot of creating ‘clearly illegal’ sexual content without the consent of the people in the imagery.
France concluded that this potentially violates the EU Digital Services Act
The public prosecutor’s office located in Paris has also expanded its investigation into X to now include these new accusations.