Stuart Clarkson

Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service.

I'm Stuart Clarkson.

Good morning.

As mounting pressure on Grok, the AI chatbot that's part of Elon Musk's social media platform X, the UK is rushing through a new law this week which will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images.

And other countries, including Malaysia and Indonesia, have blocked access to Grok in the past few days.

Well, let's talk to Olivia Solon now.

She's a technology editor at Bloomberg based in London.

Hi, Olivia.

Hi.

So there's a lot of pressure on governments around the world to take action.

How far do you think this could go?

Yeah, and Malaysia, one of those countries, its communication regulator saying today it's going to take legal action against X. We've heard in the UK from the regulator Ofcom, which is going to investigate.

So what could the outcome of that be?

Big fine for X?

And there are other tools that use AI to do this kind of thing.

The difference with Grok is that it posts them automatically onto the internet.

And also it's got a high profile owner in Elon Musk.

Has that put them more in the firing line?

OK, we'll leave it there.

Olivia Solon from Bloomberg, thanks for joining us on Marketplace.