{"id":21489,"date":"2026-01-09T13:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/no-10-condemns-move-by-x-to-restrict-grok-ai-image-creation-tool-as-insulting\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:37:25","slug":"no-10-condemns-move-by-x-to-restrict-grok-ai-image-creation-tool-as-insulting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/no-10-condemns-move-by-x-to-restrict-grok-ai-image-creation-tool-as-insulting\/","title":{"rendered":"No 10 condemns move by X to restrict Grok AI image creation tool as insulting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spokesperson says limiting access to subscribers just makes ability to generate unlawful images a premium service<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/jan\/09\/labour-pubs-disability-benefits-assisted-dying-defence-spending-farage-reform-latest-news-updates\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Downing Street has condemned the move by X to restrict its AI image creation tool to paying subscribers as insulting, saying it simply made the ability to generate explicit and unlawful images a premium service.<\/p>\n<p>There has been widespread anger after the image tool for Grok, the AI element of X, was used to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/08\/grok-x-nonconsensual-images\">manipulate thousands of images of women and sometimes children<\/a> to remove their clothing or put them in sexual positions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/09\/no-10-condemns-move-by-x-to-restrict-grok-ai-image-creation-tool-as-insulting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9eed52bcccc9b2621ffb52657bdd17f06c35aa8b\/82_0_3083_2467\/master\/3083.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8d8f2ddcabae8b354795f61619d8085a\" title=\"No 10 condemns move by X to restrict Grok AI image creation tool as insulting\" \/>Spokesperson says limiting access to subscribers just makes ability to generate unlawful images a premium service<br \/>\nUK politics live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nDowning Street has condemned the move by X to restrict its AI image creation tool to paying subscribers as insulting, saying it simply made the ability to generate explicit and unlawful images a premium service.<br \/>\nThere has been widespread anger after the image tool for Grok, the AI element of X, was used to manipulate thousands of images of women and sometimes children to remove their clothing or put them in sexual positions. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spokesperson says limiting access to subscribers just makes ability to generate unlawful images a premium service UK politics live \u2013 latest updates Downing Street has condemned the move by X to restrict its AI image creation tool to paying subscribers as insulting, saying it simply made the ability to generate explicit and unlawful images a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/no-10-condemns-move-by-x-to-restrict-grok-ai-image-creation-tool-as-insulting\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No 10 condemns move by X to restrict Grok AI image creation tool as insulting<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21489"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}