Authorities with the Paris cyber-crime unit raided the offices of Elon Musk’s X as part of an investigation into suspected criminal activity linked to his AI tool, Grok, including unlawful data extraction as well as the generation and possession of child pornography.
Additionally, the French prosecutor’s office announced both Musk and his former chief executive, Linda Yaccarino, have been ordered to appear at hearings in April, according to the BBC.
While Musk called the raid a “political attack,” the operation followed the release of an analysis from the U.K.-based Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) that found a 26,000% spike in AI-generated videos and images depicting child sexual abuse material (CSAM)...
Donna Rice Hughes, CEO of Enough Is Enough®, similarly sounded the alarm during an interview with CBN News, saying that — with the evolution of AI — “you don’t need anything,” other than a person’s image or likeness, to victimize that individual.
“You can take a picture of anyone’s child in a Christmas photo, and you can deep-fake it, which means you can actually remove that child’s clothes, you can age that child, you can have that child do anything you want [him or her] to do sexually,” she warned. “And that’s what’s happening with AI.” ...