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The UK is activating laws to criminalise AI-generated deepfakes following a crackdown on Elon Musk's Grok. Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned X could lose its self-regulatory status if it fails to curb digital abuse.

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The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology did not specify which day it would come into effect.

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The UK is making it a crime to generate or request AI-made explicit content from this week, following the ban on sharing deepfakes. The region's communications regulator, Ofcom, is also looking into Grok, investigating the service formally to see if it "has complied with its duties to protect people."

It comes as media watchdog Ofcom has launched an investigation into whether the social media platform has breached UK law.

Editorial: A flood of non-consensual deepfake bikini shots on X is putting the UK’s Online Safety Act to the test

The U.K.'s online safety regulator has opened a formal investigation into X over allegedly illegal deepfakes created by its Grok AI chatbot.

A UK AI rival to ChatGPT warns that nude image generation can’t be made safe as Elon Musk’s Grok faces regulatory backlash over sexualized AI images.

The investigation was welcomed by Technology Secretary Liz Kendall.

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot is under investigation after being used to create sexualised images