On top of nonconsensual porn images, X users seem to be using Grok to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed
and critics say it's harassment by AI Kevin Raposo / KnowTechie : Grok chatbot's safety fails, releases explicit images of minors Selin Hacialioglu / Türkiye Today : Pressure grows in Türkiye as Grok ...
EU member states agree a position on draft child protection legislation without forcing Big Tech to find and remove CSAM; states now negotiate with EU lawmakers
A web camera is seen in front of the displayed words “Child Pornography” in this illustration t - EU says big tech must tackle online child abuse
Sam Altman says OpenAI is “not the elected moral police of the world”, after receiving backlash for saying that ChatGPT will offer “erotica for verified adults”
plus 3 other reasons I've switched to Claude for productivity Grace Priscilla Teo / Tech in Asia : Sam Altman says OpenAI shouldn't act as global moral authority Jensen Huang / Moneycontrol : Sam Altm...
A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors' IDs, but says it can file new challenges
Europe is not allowed to make Internet Laws. — arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ... Hari Kunzru / @harikunzru : There is a possible future in which the UK government ends up blocking Wikipedia to save f...
Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, several owned by companies outside the US, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law
8.5.2025—Florida Sues Czech-Owned Porn Sites—Gimenez, Miami Mayor—Much More... Ronil Thakkar / KnowTechie : Florida cracks down on porn sites over child protection law Stephany Matat / Tallahassee Dem...
A profile of Rumble founder Chris Pavlovski, who declined an offer to become CEO of Truth Social and opted to provide services to the platform through Rumble
Before he helped run Truth Social, Chris Pavlovski owned porn domains. Now, he's allied with a political movement that wants to ban pornography. See also Mediagazer
UK's Ofcom launches probes into four companies, which collectively run 34 pornography sites, to assess if they have “highly effective” age verification checks
Catarina Demony / Reuters :
Some users are circumventing UK's age checks by using VPNs, providing fake AI-generated photo IDs, or using images of high-fidelity video game characters
It's a privacy nightmare and is the slipperest of slopes. @kaidzsu.com : my headcanon is twitter rolled out the UK age verification nightmare for the entirety of Europe because the one remaining devel...
A profile of OnlyFans' secretive founder Leo Radvinsky, as the platform's parent company is considering a sale for as much as $8B, according to sources
despite pornography concerns Forums: r/technology : The Mysterious Billionaire Behind the OnlyFans Porn Empire
SCOTUS upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law
[This distinction is illusory. Today's AV technology is similarly prohibitive. No adult wants to provide their face just to watch porn.] … Evan Greer / @evangreer : this is bad in a variety of ways ...