Elon Musk will likely have to hit the drug of his choice to deal with the headache that Grok and its bad behaviour is going to cause him. I say that because in a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, Ben Ray Lujan, and Edward Markey have said this:
We write to ask that you enforce your app stores’ terms of service against X Corp’s (hereafter, “X”) X and Grok apps for their mass generation of nonconsensual sexualized images of women and children. X’s generation of these harmful and likely illegal depictions of women and children has shown complete disregard for your stores’ distribution terms. Apple and Google must remove these apps from the app stores until X’s policy violations are addressed.
Now Elon may not care about what the EU or the UK has to say. But this request from these US senators will get his attention and make it clear that paywalling the ability to create objectionable content isn’t nearly enough to deal with this issue. I for one am hoping that other countries jump on the bandwagon and do something like this. If not more.
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Things Get Worse For Elon Musk As US Senators Want The Twitter And Grok Apps Removed From App Stores
Elon Musk will likely have to hit the drug of his choice to deal with the headache that Grok and its bad behaviour is going to cause him. I say that because in a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, Ben Ray Lujan, and Edward Markey have said this:
We write to ask that you enforce your app stores’ terms of service against X Corp’s (hereafter, “X”) X and Grok apps for their mass generation of nonconsensual sexualized images of women and children. X’s generation of these harmful and likely illegal depictions of women and children has shown complete disregard for your stores’ distribution terms. Apple and Google must remove these apps from the app stores until X’s policy violations are addressed.
Now Elon may not care about what the EU or the UK has to say. But this request from these US senators will get his attention and make it clear that paywalling the ability to create objectionable content isn’t nearly enough to deal with this issue. I for one am hoping that other countries jump on the bandwagon and do something like this. If not more.
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