Labour MP proposes online porn rules
The gist
Labour MP Jess Asato is suing Elon Musk's xAI, saying its Grok chatbot made sexualised images of her without consent.
She wants online porn law brought into parity with offline rules, and AI chatbots covered.
How it unfolded
- Jul 11, 2025Minister Dame Diana Johnson told MPs harmful content online was "fuelling violent sexual encounters" and pledged a ban on strangulation and suffocation pornography.
- Apr 10, 2026The government announced laws to criminalise possessing or publishing pornography depicting incest or adults pretending to be children, with tech executives potentially liable if platforms fail to remove nonconsensual intimate images.
- Jun 4, 2026Asato posted that a Jewish woman was put in a bikini in Auschwitz and women were put in ball-gags and covered in imitation semen, "all because xAI did not build Grok with safety in mind".