In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, U.S.Senators Ron Wyden, Ben Ray Lujan, and Edward Markey have requested that Apple and Google remove X Corp's X and Grok apps from their app stores over recent incidents of "mass generation of nonconsensual sexualized images of women and children." X has come under fire over the past week amid reports of Grok's AI image generation capabilities being used to create images depicting women and children in bikinis or underwear.In response, X appears to have scaled back the ability for Grok to generate images in response to X posts by non-paying users, but notes that the tools remain available to paying subscribers and through the dedicated Grok tab in the X and in the standalone Grok app.
The senators argue that the "harmful and likely illegal depictions" are in violation of Apple's and Google's app store terms and that the two companies must remove the apps until the policy violations are addressed.The senators request a written response to their letter by January 23.Note: Due to the political or social nature of the discussion regarding this topic, the discussion thread is located in our Political News forum.
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