"X and Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI also face intensifying scrutiny from Britain's data privacy regulator, which opened formal investigations into how they handled personal data when they developed and deployed Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok.Grok, which was built by xAI and is available through X, sparked global outrage last month after it pumped out a torrent of sexualized nonconsensual deepfake images in response to requests from X users."
"The French investigation was opened in January last year by the prosecutors' cybercrime unit, the Paris prosecutors' office said in a statement. It's looking into alleged "complicity" in possessing and spreading pornographic images of minors, sexually explicit deepfakes, denial of crimes against humanity and manipulation of an automated data processing system as part of an organized group, among other charges."
French prosecutors raided X's offices and summoned billionaire owner Elon Musk as part of a preliminary investigation into alleged spreading of child sexual abuse images and sexually explicit deepfakes. Britain's data privacy regulator opened formal probes into X and xAI over handling of personal data during development and deployment of the Grok chatbot, which generated sexualized nonconsensual deepfake images. The Paris prosecutors' cybercrime unit opened the investigation in January, examining alleged complicity in possessing and spreading pornographic images of minors, denial of crimes against humanity, and manipulation of automated data systems. X employees and former CEO Linda Yaccarino were summoned for voluntary interviews.
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