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X must deal with Grok images and uphold law, UK tech minister says

By Frank Hersey ( January 6, 2026, 17:46 GMT | Insight) -- Elon Musk’s social media platform X must deal urgently with a wave of sexualized images generated by its Grok AI feature and uphold the law, the UK tech minister has said. The online safety watchdog has her full support to seek enforcement, she said in a statement.UK technology minister Liz Kendall said intimate image abuse is illegal in the UK and platforms must prevent such content from appearing. Her remarks Tuesday follow outrage worldwide at the emergence on X of images, almost all of women, whose clothes have been replaced by underwear by the platform’s AI tool, Grok....

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