Fergus Finlay: We must block Grok, it’s that simple — so why aren’t we doing it?

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Elon Musk had long allowed X to be a sewer of hate. Its AI extension, Grok, brings it to a new low, allowing users to generate, without consent, sexualised and otherwise objectionable images based on photos of real people including children. Picture: Vincent Feuray/Hans Lucas/AFP/Getty

Block Grok. It’s that simple. It’s a tool that enables the abuse of women and children. It masquerades as a search engine, a can-do machine that’s supposed to make everyone’s life better by harnessing the power of AI for research and creativity. But it has built-in capacities that enable users, at the touch of a couple of buttons, to generate dangerous and illegal images.

It needs to be blocked.