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Elon Musk has accused Keir Starmer’s Government of being “fascist” after ministers stepped up threats to ban social media site X over AI-generated sexualised images.
The tech tycoon claimed critics of his X platform “want any excuse for censorship” as he appeared defiant despite the outcry over the use of the grok artificial intelligence feature to create fake images of people,including children.
Responding to a chart showing arrest figures for online posts with the UK at the top, Musk said: “Why is the UK government so fascist?”
Earlier, pointing to claims other AI programs created non-sexualised images of women in bikinis, he posted on X: “They want any excuse for censorship.”
Criticism of X has focused on Grok’s production of images of child abuse and manipulation of photographs of real women and girls to remove their clothes.
Technology secretary Liz Kendall said she would back regulator Ofcom if it decided to effectively block X if it failed to comply with UK laws, saying: “Sexually manipulating images of women and children is despicable and abhorrent.”
Ofcom said it was undertaking an “expedited assessment” after X and Grok’s creator xAI responded to contact from the regulator.
But Musk responded by sharing a post from US legislator Anna Paulina Luna
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