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The Trump administration is trying to pressure the United Kingdom not to take action against Elon Musk\u2019s social media platform in the wake of a scandal involving artificial intelligence-generated pornography.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A State Department official on Monday issued a vague warning to officials in the U.K. not to place any restrictions on Musk\u2019s social media platform, X, after it unveiled a feature that allowed the platform\u2019s AI chatbot, Grok, to generate nonconsensual pornography, including pornographic images of children.<\/p>\n

In an interview with London-based GB News that aired Tuesday, State Department Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers said that \u201cnothing is off the table when it comes to free speech,\u201d framing the probe by the British media regulator, Ofcom, into nonconsensual pornography on X as some sort of infringement on democratic first principles.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s wait and see what Ofcom does,\u201d Rogers said, \u201cand we\u2019ll see what America does in response.\u201d She went on to suggest that X has \u201cpolitical valence that the British government is antagonistic to, doesn\u2019t like, and that\u2019s what\u2019s really going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not, in fact, what\u2019s really going on. Generating pornographic images of unwitting individuals, including children, is not a political stance, and government efforts to rein in exploitative and abusive images hardly amounts to repression of political speech. This is, after all, an administration that should recognize the difference, having touted anti-deepfake and revenge porn legislation passed last spring.<\/p>\n

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Asked about the investigation by Reuters, X said that \u201cit takes action against illegal content on the platform, including child sexual abuse material, by removing it, permanently suspending accounts, and working with local governments and law enforcement as necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Indonesia and Malaysia became the first countries to ban Grok this past weekend. And the European Commission is investigating the matter as well.<\/p>\n

One might think that the Trump administration, currently embroiled in a scandal over its unlawful withholding of documents related to deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, would want to do everything in its power to show it stands firmly against sexual exploitation, rather than seemingly to undermine efforts to fight it through vaguely worded threats.<\/p>\n

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