{"id":21987,"date":"2026-02-16T08:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/starmer-to-extend-online-safety-rules-to-ai-chatbots-after-grok-scandal\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:37:25","slug":"starmer-to-extend-online-safety-rules-to-ai-chatbots-after-grok-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/starmer-to-extend-online-safety-rules-to-ai-chatbots-after-grok-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer to extend online safety rules to AI chatbots after Grok scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starmer to announce \u2018crackdown on vile illegal content created by AI\u2019 after scandal involving Elon Musk\u2019s Grok tool<\/p>\n<p>Makers of AI chatbots that put children at risk will face massive fines or even see their services blocked in the UK under law changes to be announced by Keir Starmer on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Emboldened by Elon Musk\u2019s X <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/14\/elon-musk-grok-ai-explicit-images\">stopping its Grok AI tool from creating sexualised images of real people in the UK<\/a> after public outrage last month, ministers are planning a \u201ccrackdown on vile illegal content created by AI\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/15\/ai-chatbots-children-risk-fines-uk-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/12cede5e4256abacd6d857d664b87f69c6f64ac1\/97_0_5602_4480\/master\/5602.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=567f471149b5ce6ca5abab4e50387842\" title=\"Starmer to extend online safety rules to AI chatbots after Grok scandal\" \/>Starmer to announce \u2018crackdown on vile illegal content created by AI\u2019 after scandal involving Elon Musk\u2019s Grok tool<br \/>\nMakers of AI chatbots that put children at risk will face massive fines or even see their services blocked in the UK under law changes to be announced by Keir Starmer on Monday.<br \/>\nEmboldened by Elon Musk\u2019s X stopping its Grok AI tool from creating sexualised images of real people in the UK after public outrage last month, ministers are planning a \u201ccrackdown on vile illegal content created by AI\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starmer to announce \u2018crackdown on vile illegal content created by AI\u2019 after scandal involving Elon Musk\u2019s Grok tool Makers of AI chatbots that put children at risk will face massive fines or even see their services blocked in the UK under law changes to be announced by Keir Starmer on Monday. Emboldened by Elon Musk\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/starmer-to-extend-online-safety-rules-to-ai-chatbots-after-grok-scandal\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starmer to extend online safety rules to AI chatbots after Grok scandal<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21988,"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\/21987"}],"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=21987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}