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Sexualised images created by AI chatbot Grok are “weapons of abuse”, Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has said, as she told MPs that creating non-consensual intimate images will become a criminal offence from this week.It comes as media watchdog Ofcom has launched an investigation into whether Elon Musk’s social media platform X has breached UK law over reports that Grok was used to create and share sexualised images of children.Ms Kendall labelled AI-generated images of women “tied up and gagged, with bruises, covered in blood and much, much more” as being “weapons of abuse”.

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00:00Lives can and have been devastated by this content, which is designed to harass, torment
00:18and violate people's dignity.
00:21They are not harmless images, they are weapons of abuse disproportionately aimed at women
00:27and girls, and they are illegal.
00:31The Data Act, passed last year, made it a criminal offence to create or request the creation
00:38of non-consensual intimate images, and today I can announce to the House that this offence
00:45will be brought into force this week.
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