#childsexualabusematerialcsam — Public Fediverse posts

Techdirt: Elon Said Fighting CSAM Was “Priority #1.” A NY Times Reporter With A Script Found 75 Known Images. “Last year there was a report that one of the major tool providers for CSAM detection, Thorn, had cut off X, because Elon refused to pay the bill. At the time, X responded angrily to anyone asking about the Thorn situation by claiming that they had put in place their own, better […]

New York Times: Despite Pledges From Musk, Child Sexual Abuse Material Persists on X. “Elon Musk has long vowed to remove child sexual abuse material on his social media platform, X. But some of the content continues to appear. A review by the Canadian Center for Child Protection found that the site’s own artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, responded to requests from users by creating […]

Irish Times: X faces Irish investigation over concerns children not protected from pornography and violence. “The commission’s investigation, announced on Tuesday, is the first under its online safety code. Any social media platform found to be in violation of the code faces fines of up to the higher of 10 per cent of relevant annual turnover or €20 million. Under the regulator’s online […]

Ars Technica: Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says. “xAI has now been accused of training Grok on child sex abuse materials (CSAM), as regulators and courts continue to probe how far the problem goes, and some Grok users have been arrested.”

The Guardian: Rising number of UK children report seeing explicit deepfakes of themselves. “The Report Remove service, which blocks intimate images from appearing online, said there had been a rapid increase in imagery that had been digitally manipulated or ‘faked’ in some way, including with AI and nudification tools. In the first six months of this year it received 420 reports from children […]

PetaPixel: Meta’s Partner in China Placed Thousands of Ads for Nudify Apps, Report Says. “The Tech Transparency Project, a nonprofit that investigates major technology companies, reports that GatherOne placed ads promoting apps that can digitally undress women by showing sexually suggestive images. Some of these apps reportedly contained child sex abuse material (CSAM). GatherOne is one of […]

Associated Press: What to know about the Tate brothers, social media influencers facing rape and trafficking charges. “Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service said the new charges relate to four further victims and were brought after authorities received evidence from Bedfordshire Police in southeastern England. The charges include rape, assault, trafficking and offenses relating to ‘indecent […]

Reuters: Musk’s xAI sues Grok user over sexualized ‘deepfakes’. “Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence startup xAI has sued a South Carolina man arrested earlier this year on charges of sexually exploiting ​minors, alleging he misused the company’s AI system Grok to ‌create child sexual abuse material.”

Ars Technica: Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself. “In March, a girl’s stepfather took his own life after cops discovered that he had used Grok to create 7,000 sexually explicit images using one photo taken when his stepdaughter was 11 years old, the amended complaint alleged.”

BBC: Instagram running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, BBC finds. “Instagram has been running paid adverts promoting child sexual abuse material in India, a BBC Eye investigation has found. The ads, seen by the BBC World Service, use terms including ‘rape video’ and ‘child video’ and link users to channels on the messaging app Telegram, where they can buy the material for as […]

Reuters: India ‘proactively monitoring’ Telegram over concerns about illegal content, government report shows. “An Indian investigation found that Telegram is being used extensively to ​share child sexual abuse material and perpetrate financial scams, according to a report by the government, which ‌added it was ‘proactively monitoring’ groups on the messaging app.”

WFLA: Clearwater man used Grok to make nude images of woman without her knowledge: police. “A Clearwater man caught with child sexual abuse material (CSAM) also used X’s AI chatbot, Grok, to generate nude images of a woman without her consent, police say. A Largo Police Department arrest report said they began investigating Devin Rudd, 26, in February, when they discovered that he uploaded […]

Associated Press: French prosecutors seek charges against Elon Musk and X over child sexual abuse images. “French prosecutors are seeking charges against Elon Musk and his social platform X for child sexual abuse images on the platform, deepfakes, disinformation and complicity in denying crimes against humanity by the platform’s artificial intelligence system, Grok.”

Ars Technica: As teens await sentencing for nudifying girls, parents aim to sue school. “The incident could have been caught early, after the school learned of the images following an anonymous report to a state-run tipline. But officials—who at the time weren’t legally required to act—failed to notify parents or police for six months, as the number of victims continued to grow. In total, […]

Engadget: xAI is being sued by teens who say Grok created CSAM using their photos. “xAI, which is already facing multiple investigations around the world over widespread reports that Grok repeatedly created sexualized images of children, is now facing a class action lawsuit. Three teenagers, who allege that photos of them were used by Grok to generate child exploitation material, have filed a […]

Engadget: Alaska could be the next state to crack down on AI-generated CSAM and restrict kids’ social media use. “Alaska’s House of Representatives unanimously passed HB47, a bill that imposes sweeping limits on when and how minors use social media apps, along with bans on generating or distributing harmful deepfakes of children.”

BBC: Tech firms will have 48 hours to remove abusive images under new law. “Tech platforms would have to remove intimate images which have been shared without consent within 48 hours, under a proposed UK law. The government said tackling intimate image abuse should be treated with the same severity as child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and terrorist content.”

Engadget: Europe probes Shein’s addictive app design and illegal product sales. “EC officials are concerned about the sale of illegal products, including child sexual abuse material, as well as the potentially addictive design of its shopping experience. The Commission found fellow low-cost retailer Temu in violation of the Digital Services Act after a similar investigation last year.”

Android Headlines: West Virginia Files Lawsuit Against Apple iCloud For Failing to Stop CSAM Material. “West Virginia has filed a lawsuit against Apple. The state alleges that the iCloud failed to prevent CSAM storage and sharing. It seeks financial penalties and an official court order that would require Apple to adopt advanced CSAM detection systems.”

Al Jazeera: Spain to probe social media giants over AI-generated child abuse material. “The Spanish government ⁠has ordered prosecutors to investigate social media ⁠platforms X, Meta and TikTok for allegedly spreading AI-generated child sexual abuse material, the prime minister has said.”

Associated Press: Musk’s Grok chatbot faces EU privacy investigation over sexualized deepfake images. “Elon Musk’s social media platform X faces a European Union privacy investigation after its Grok AI chatbot started spitting out nonconsensual deepfake images, Ireland’s data privacy regulator said Tuesday.”

Associated Press: Trial against Meta in New Mexico focuses on dangers of child sexual exploitation on social media. “A trial focused on the dangers of child sexual exploitation on social media and whether Meta misrepresented the safety of its platforms is set to start in New Mexico with opening statements Monday.”

Reuters: UNICEF calls for criminalization of AI content depicting child sex abuse. “The United Nations children’s agency UNICEF on Wednesday called for countries to criminalize the creation of AI-generated child sexual abuse content, saying it was alarmed by reports of an increase in the number of artificial intelligence images sexualizing children.”

Washington Post: Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator. This link goes to a MSN-syndicated version of the article; there is no paywall. “As part of this push for relevance, xAI embraced making sexualized material, publicly releasing sexy AI companions, rolling back guardrails on sexual material and ignoring internal warnings about the potentially serious legal […]

Engadget: Indonesia is lifting its ban on Grok, but with some conditions. “The country’s Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs released a statement earlier today, which said X is allowed to resume service in Indonesia but will be subject to monitoring for any future violations.”

Associated Press: Paris prosecutors raid X offices as part of investigation into child abuse images and deepfakes. “French prosecutors searched the offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X on Tuesday as part of a preliminary investigation into a range of alleged offences, including spreading child sexual abuse images and deepfakes.”

Engadget: Amazon discovered a ‘high volume’ of CSAM in its AI training data but isn’t saying where it came from. “The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it received more than 1 million reports of AI-related child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in 2025. The ‘vast majority’ of that content was reported by Amazon, which found the material in its training data, according to an […]

CBS News: X, Grok AI still allow users to digitally undress people without consent, as EU announces investigation. “The tool still worked Monday on both the standalone Grok app, and for verified X users in the U.K, the U.S. and European Union, despite public pledges from the company to stop its chatbot allowing people to use artificial intelligence to edit images of real people and show them in […]

Politico: Grok could have produced 3 million sexual deepfakes in 11 days, says estimate. “A study on the artificial intelligence chatbot Grok embedded on X estimates it created 3 million sexualized images in 11 days in January, including 23,000 of children. Meanwhile European regulators have yet to decide how to handle the explosion of nonconsensual deepfakes on the already embattled platform.”

Reuters: Japan probing Musk’s Grok AI service over inappropriate images. “Japan said on Friday that it has become the latest country to probe X over Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence service Grok, stating that the government would consider every possible option to prevent the generation of inappropriate images.”

Mashable: Grok ban: The nations considering blocking AI chatbot over nonconsensual sexual content. “In response to slow movement from X’s teams, countries have begun tamping down access to xAI’s bot and standalone app, as several conduct investigations into Grok’s safeguards, xAI’s response, and the possibility that the company is violating various online safety laws.”

Ars Technica: Apps like Grok are explicitly banned under Google’s rules—why is it still in the Play Store? . “It really could not be more clear from Google’s publicly available policies that Grok should have been banned yesterday. And yet, it remains in the Play Store. Not only that—it enjoys a T for Teen rating, one notch below the M-rated X app. Apple also still offers the Grok app on […]

Gizmodo: The Fourth Most Populous Country in the World Just Reportedly Blocked Grok. “On Saturday, Indonesia, the fourth most populous country on Earth, apparently issued a temporary block of the the Grok chatbot, with Meutya Hafid, Indonesia’s minister of communication and digital affairs saying in a statement, ‘The government views the practice of non-consensual sexual deepfakes as a […]

The Verge: Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards. “Since X’s users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I assumed would be inevitable: X getting booted from Apple’s and Google’s app stores. The fact that it hasn’t happened yet tells me something serious about Silicon Valley’s leadership: Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are […]

NBC News: Senators urged Apple and Google to remove Musk’s X and Grok from app stores over sexual deepfakes. “Three Democratic senators urged Apple and Google to remove Elon Musk’s apps X and Grok from their app stores Thursday evening after xAI’s Grok artificial intelligence tool had been used to flood X with sexualized nonconsensual images of real people.”

Ars Technica: X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced. “On Saturday, X Safety finally posted an official response after nearly a week of backlash over Grok outputs that sexualized real people without consent. Offering no apology for Grok’s functionality, X Safety blamed users for prompting Grok to produce CSAM while reminding them that such prompts can trigger account […]

Political gridlock endangers children’s rights to protection from online sexual abuse https://www.euractiv.com/section/law-enforcement/opinion/political-gridlock-endangers-childrens-rights-to-protection-from-online-sexual-abuse/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #childsexualabusematerialCSAM #CSAM #dataprivacy #EuropeanCommission

MEPs must support child sexual abuse legislation as criminals target Europe https://www.euractiv.com/section/law-enforcement/opinion/meps-must-support-child-sexual-abuse-legislation-as-criminals-target-europe/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #childsexualabusematerialCSAM #CSAM #IWF #UnitedKingdom

Resistance lingers to Hungarian presidency’s new push for child sexual abuse prevention regulation https://www.euractiv.com/section/law-enforcement/news/resistance-lingers-to-hungarian-presidencys-new-push-for-child-sexual-abuse-prevention-regulation/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #childsexualabusematerialCSAM #coreper #CSAM #ePrivacyDirective