Paris ¨C French prosecutors said Saturday they had alerted U.S. authorities to a suspicion that tech tycoon Elon Musk had encouraged controversy over sexualized deepfakes on X to ¡°artificially¡± increase the value of his company.
The social media network¡¯s Grok AI chatbot stirred outrage earlier this year over it generating images of naked women and girls without their consent.
¡°The controversy sparked by sexually explicit deepfakes generated by Grok (X¡¯s AI) may have been deliberately generated in order to artificially boost the value of companies X and xAI,¡± the Paris prosecutor¡¯s office said, confirming a report in Le Monde newspaper on Friday.
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