Deepak Pathak

The U.S.

Senate unanimously passed a bill allowing victims of sexually explicit AI images to sue the creators of that content.

The move is in response to growing public anger after Bloomberg reported that Elon Musk's ex has become a top site for generating pictures of people who have been non-consensually undressed by AI.

Musk posted on X that he wasn't aware of any naked, underage images generated by Grok,

That's XAI's generative AI tool.

Let's bring in Bloomberg's Emily Birnbaum, who covers corporate lobbying government.

The Defiance Act confers on American citizens a civil right to sue.

Take that information and give the rest of the details because that's the bit that's new here.

It didn't go through the House last time, the Defiance Act, whereas Takedown did.

And why would this time be any different?

Is the pushback becoming enough?

Because thus far, all we've really seen is the Department of Defense put Grok AI within its military system instead of pushing back on this being something that Grok or X needs to clamp down in some way.

Emily, where does the company X and the platform X fit into this in a citizen's right to sue and those that distribute the content?

So far, no attorneys general have taken that up, but it's definitely under serious consideration.

Certainly something that maybe Malaysia has been putting forward about whether or not it's XAI's responsibility in some way.

Bloomberg's Emily Birnbaum, fantastic reporting.

Thank you very much indeed.

Now coming up, Airbnb has a new chief technology officer.

We'll hear about his plans for the short-term rental company.

That's next as the Bloomberg Tech.