{"id":21873,"date":"2026-02-05T09:37:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/condemnation-of-elon-musks-ai-chatbot-reached-tipping-point-after-french-raid-australias-esafety-chief-says\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:37:43","slug":"condemnation-of-elon-musks-ai-chatbot-reached-tipping-point-after-french-raid-australias-esafety-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/condemnation-of-elon-musks-ai-chatbot-reached-tipping-point-after-french-raid-australias-esafety-chief-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Condemnation of Elon Musk\u2019s AI chatbot reached \u2018tipping point\u2019 after French raid, Australia\u2019s eSafety chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of countries including Australia are investigating X over Grok-produced sexualised deepfakes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2026\/feb\/05\/australian-politics-live-anthony-albanese-sussan-ley-labor-liberal-question-time-chalmers-budget-cost-of-living-marles-defence-leadership-challenge-spill-ntwnfb\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, says global regulatory focus on Elon Musk\u2019s X has reached a \u201ctipping point\u201d after a raid of the company\u2019s offices in France this week.<\/p>\n<p>The raid on Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/03\/french-headquarters-elon-musk-x-raided-paris-cybercrime-unit\">was part of an investigation<\/a> that included alleged offences of complicity in the possession and organised distribution of child abuse images, violation of image rights through sexualised deepfakes, and denial of crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/05\/australia-esafety-commissioner-elon-musk-ai-chatbot-grok-deepfakes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/06b479544852271bee82f639e3de538f8fcf04bb\/0_556_4656_3725\/master\/4656.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bd5b8dd9a08e98b1453b2fc426b8a66b\" title=\"Condemnation of Elon Musk\u2019s AI chatbot reached \u2018tipping point\u2019 after French raid, Australia\u2019s eSafety chief says\" \/>A number of countries including Australia are investigating X over Grok-produced sexualised deepfakes<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, says global regulatory focus on Elon Musk\u2019s X has reached a \u201ctipping point\u201d after a raid of the company\u2019s offices in France this week.<br \/>\nThe raid on Tuesday was part of an investigation that included alleged offences of complicity in the possession and organised distribution of child abuse images, violation of image rights through sexualised deepfakes, and denial of crimes against humanity. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of countries including Australia are investigating X over Grok-produced sexualised deepfakes Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, says global regulatory focus on Elon Musk\u2019s X has reached a \u201ctipping point\u201d after a raid &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/condemnation-of-elon-musks-ai-chatbot-reached-tipping-point-after-french-raid-australias-esafety-chief-says\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Condemnation of Elon Musk\u2019s AI chatbot reached \u2018tipping point\u2019 after French raid, Australia\u2019s eSafety chief says<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21874,"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\/21873"}],"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=21873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}