From 93% women victims to 900% growth: Deepfake abuse enters alarming phase, says reportDeepfake content targeting women has dramatically increased. AI tools are being misused to create fake images and harass individuals. Cyber...
10 Mar, 2026, 05.08 PM IST
Decoding 3-hour deadline for companies to axe flagged AI-made postsThe latest IT rules in India now bring artificial intelligence under legal oversight for the first time. Intermediaries must act faster to ...
12 Feb, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
UK woman felt 'violated, assaulted' by deepfake Grok imagesBritish academic Daisy Dixon felt "violated" after the Grok chatbot on Elon Musk's X social media platform allowed users to generate sexual...
23 Jan, 2026, 06.43 PM IST
UK regulator launches investigation into X over Grok sexualised imageryBritain’s media regulator Ofcom has opened an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over alleged misuse of its Grok AI chatbot to generate sexua...
12 Jan, 2026, 10.58 PM IST
UK tells Musk to urgently address intimate 'deepfakes' on XBritain has urged Elon Musk's social media site X to urgently address misuse of its artificial intelligence tool Grok, Sky News reported o...
06 Jan, 2026, 09.31 PM IST
Britain demands Elon Musk's Grok answers concerns about sexualised photosBritain has demanded Elon Musk's social media site X explain how its AI chatbot Grok was able to produce undressed images of people and se...
06 Jan, 2026, 09.21 AM IST
Grok’s ‘Spicy Mode’ cooks up a stormHigh-profile cases involving women celebrities at the receiving end include the likes of Taylor Swift, whose AI-generated offensive videos ...
05 Jan, 2026, 06.01 AM IST
ETtech Explainer: Why Grok’s edgy AI image generator has come under fireAmid huge backlash online, India on Friday wrote to X, highlighting its failure to observe statutory due diligence under the Indian IT rule...
03 Jan, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
India's Deepfake Fix: Unmask & punish feku-makersNew rules aim to curb deepfakes by labeling synthetic content. However, these proposals place undue burden on social media platforms. Exper...
17 Dec, 2025, 12.15 AM IST
ET Explainer: What is Trump's Take it Down Act to tackle ‘revenge porn’President Trump has signed the Take it Down Act, a federal law criminalising the publication of non-consensual intimate images, including d...
23 May, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
President Trump signs Take It Down Act, addressing nonconsensual deepfakes. What is it?President Trump signed the Take It Down Act, a bipartisan law targeting non-consensual intimate imagery and deepfakes. Introduced by Senato...
20 May, 2025, 03.19 PM IST
'Damaging' AI porn scandal at US school scars victimsA scandal at Pennsylvania's Lancaster Country Day School involved AI-generated nude photos of students, primarily sourced from public socia...
17 Jan, 2025, 07.17 AM IST
Meta oversight board tells company to clean up rules on AI-generated pornographyThe board, which is funded by the social media giant but operates independently, issued its ruling after reviewing two pornographic fakes o...
25 Jul, 2024, 04.01 PM IST
Fake online images of Taylor Swift alarm White HouseFake sexually explicit images of Swift proliferated across social media this week, including one image shared on X, formerly Twitter, that ...
27 Jan, 2024, 07.36 AM IST
Meta highlights initiatives to keep women safe in IndiaThese initiatives, Meta Platforms said, would equip women with tools and resources in their native languages, including in Marathi, to bett...
16 Feb, 2022, 05.31 PM IST
Meta brings new safety initiatives aimed at protecting women in IndiaWhile announcing the initiatives, Karuna Nain, director of global safety policy at Meta Platforms, said the company is on track to spend mo...
03 Dec, 2021, 06.45 AM IST
Platforms hear disturbing voices from ‘Bois Locker Room’The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) issued notices to Instagram and the Delhi Police on Monday, following which a 15-year-old boy was take...
06 May, 2020, 09.00 AM IST