{"id":21531,"date":"2026-01-12T09:37:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/uk-threatens-action-against-x-over-sexualised-ai-images-of-women-and-children\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:37:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:37:45","slug":"uk-threatens-action-against-x-over-sexualised-ai-images-of-women-and-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/uk-threatens-action-against-x-over-sexualised-ai-images-of-women-and-children\/","title":{"rendered":"UK threatens action against X over sexualised AI images of women and children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government signals support for possible Ofcom intervention on Grok as scrutiny of X\u2019s AI tool intensifies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/jan\/12\/us-prosecutors-criminal-investigation-federal-reserve-chair-jerome-powell-dollar-stock-market-gold-bitcoin-business-live-news-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s X \u201cis not doing enough to keep its customers safe online\u201d, a minister has said, as the UK government prepares to outline possible action against the platform over the mass production of sexualised images of woman and children.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Kyle, the business secretary, said the government would fully support any action taken by Ofcom, the media regulator, against X \u2013 <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\">including the possibility<\/a> that the platform could be blocked in the UK.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/12\/uk-threatens-action-against-x-over-sexualised-ai-images-of-women-and-children\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cb80376c013a55c997e1ab182e63e06bd83a2db8\/0_0_3937_3150\/master\/3937.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d9e5b417734f03137dfeb4bed554b230\" title=\"UK threatens action against X over sexualised AI images of women and children\" \/>Government signals support for possible Ofcom intervention on Grok as scrutiny of X\u2019s AI tool intensifies<br \/>\nBusiness live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nElon Musk\u2019s X \u201cis not doing enough to keep its customers safe online\u201d, a minister has said, as the UK government prepares to outline possible action against the platform over the mass production of sexualised images of woman and children.<br \/>\nPeter Kyle, the business secretary, said the government would fully support any action taken by Ofcom, the media regulator, against X \u2013 including the possibility that the platform could be blocked in the UK. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government signals support for possible Ofcom intervention on Grok as scrutiny of X\u2019s AI tool intensifies Business live \u2013 latest updates Elon Musk\u2019s X \u201cis not doing enough to keep its customers safe online\u201d, a minister has said, as the UK government prepares to outline possible action against the platform over the mass production of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/uk-threatens-action-against-x-over-sexualised-ai-images-of-women-and-children\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK threatens action against X over sexualised AI images of women and children<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21532,"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\/21531"}],"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=21531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}