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Elon Musk’s AI video generator has been accused of creating a “a intentional choice” to create a sexual clear clip of Taylor Swift, a specialist of online misuse without indications.
“This is not wrong with the accident, it is by design,” Claire McGlin said, a law professor who has helped prepare a law that will make the vulgar deeper illegal.
As A report by The VergeGroke Imagine’s new “Spicy” mode “did not hesitate to get out the topless video without a pop star without asking to create clear materials.
The report also states that proper age verification methods – which became law in July – were not in place.
XAI, the company behind the Groke, has been contacted to comment.
Xai’s own Acceptable Use Policy Prohibits “painting the similarity of individuals in a pornographic manner”.
Prof. McGlin of Durham University said, “This material is manufactured without displaying wrong bias without any AI technology.”
He said, “platforms like X could have been stopped if they had chosen, but they did not make a deliberate option,” he said.
This is not the first time the image of Taylor Swift is used in this way.
Using his face sexually clearly explicitly went viral and seen Millions of times In January 2024 on X and Telegram.
Deepfeek are computer-related images that replace one person’s face with another.
‘Fully without sensor, completely exposed’
In the testing of Groke Imagine’s railing, The Verge News Writer Jess Weatherbird entered the prompt: “Taylor Swift celebrated Kachela with boys”.
Groke still produced images of Swift, who are wearing a dress behind him with a group of men.
It can then be animated in short video clips under four different settings: “normal”, “fun”, “custom” or “spicy”.
“He burst [the dress] Immediately, there was nothing, but under a gusty box below, and began to dance, completely without sensor, completely exposed, “MS Weatherbade told BBC News.
He said: “It was shocking how fast I met with it – I did not ask to remove my clothes in any way, what I did was selected the ‘spicy’ option.”
Gizmodo told Similarly, clear results of famous women, although some discoveries also returned with blurred videos or “video moderate” messages.
The BBC has been unable to verify the results of AI video generations independently.
Ms. Vedarbed said that she signed the version paid by Groke Imagine, which is priced £ 30, using a brand’s new Apple account.
Groke asked for the date of his birth, but there was no other age verification in the place, he said.
Under New UK law Those who came into force in late July, platforms that show clear images must verify the age of users using methods that are “technically accurate, strong, reliable and fair”.
Media regulator’s media regulator told BBC News, “Sites and apps that include generic AI tools, which can produce pornographic materials.”
A statement said, “We know about rising and rapidly developed risks.
New UK law
Currently, it is illegal to generate pornographic deepfec when used in revenge porn or reflects children.
Prof. McGlin helped create an amendment to the law, which would illegally generate or request non-conscious porn deepfec.
The government has committed to enact this amendment law, but it has not been implemented yet.
Baronic Owen said, “Every woman should have the right to choose who her intimate images are.” Proposed amendment At the House of Lords.
“It is necessary that these models are not used in such a way that a woman violates the right to consent that she is a celebrity or not,” Lady Owen continued in a statement to BBC News.
He said, “This case is a clear example of why the government should not delay in the implementation of Lord’s amendments.”
A spokesperson of the Ministry of Justice said: “Sexually explicit deepfakes built without consent are derogatory and harmful.
“We refuse to tolerate violence against women and girls that stain our society, which is why we have passed the law to ban the creation of the sooner as soon as possible.”
When the pornographic deepfeck went viral using Taylor Swift’s face in 2024, the X temporarily blocked the discoveries for her name on the stage.
At that time, the X stated that it was actively removing the images and was taking “appropriate action” against the accounts involved in spreading them.
Ms. Vedarbed said that The Verge team chose Taylor Swift to test the Groke Imagine feature due to the incident.
“We agreed – now wrongly – that if they had kept any kind of safety measures, to prevent them from following the equality of celebrities, that she would be on the list for the first time, looking at the issues he had,” he said.
Representatives of Taylor Swift have been approached for comment.