Sally Bundock

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This is probably the strongest and most detailed response that we've had from X on this issue so far.

I think it's fair to say that until now, its actions, its responses have been fairly piecemeal.

But now it says, yes, it will block users from downloading

digitally undressing women, you know, real life women in photos, creating sexualized material of minors and that sort of thing.

In its statement, it says that X has a zero tolerance for any forms of child sexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity and unwanted sexual content.

Interestingly, though, this all applies with the caveat of X.

whether these are deemed illegal in your jurisdiction.

Presumably, if these things, creating unwanted sexual content, that is, are not illegal in your jurisdiction, the users are still free to do that using grok.

And the same goes for creating sexual content with grok of imaginary humans.

That is still very much allowed.

But this is definitely the strongest and the most detailed response we've had so far.

Yeah, they banned grok over the weekend.

They were the first countries in the world to do so.

And obviously, as you say, in the UK, there's an investigation there with the regulatory authorities.

We've seen the same in France, in India.

as well.

And then most recently, California's attorney general said that he'd be investigating Grok.

And actually, it was very shortly after this announcement in California that Grok came out with this statement saying that they would be taking much stronger action against this kind of content.

This has been a controversy that's been bubbling up.