{"id":5570,"date":"2026-01-16T14:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=5570"},"modified":"2026-01-16T14:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:54:21","slug":"grok-turns-off-image-generator-for-most-users-after-outcry-over-sexualised-ai-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/01\/16\/grok-turns-off-image-generator-for-most-users-after-outcry-over-sexualised-ai-imagery\/","title":{"rendered":"Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s AI tool, Grok, has disabled its image creation feature for most users following a global outcry over its role in generating sexually explicit and violent imagery of women and children. The decision comes as the UK government and regulators threatened X with significant fines or a potential ban under the Online Safety Act if the platform failed to curb the &#8220;nudifying&#8221; content. While the feature remains available to paying subscribers whose data is stored for identification, critics argue this move merely turns a harmful tool into a premium service. Despite the restrictions on the main platform, researchers found that a separate Grok app was still capable of generating photorealistic pornographic and violent content without consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: January 9, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/09\/grok-image-generator-outcry-sexualised-ai-imagery\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s AI tool, Grok, has disabled its image creation feature for most users following a global outcry over its role in generating sexually explicit and violent imagery of women and children. The decision comes as the UK government and regulators threatened X with significant fines or a potential ban under the Online Safety Act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":5580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unregulated-digitalization-of-political-arena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5581,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions\/5581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}