Germany plans measures to combat harmful AI image manipulation


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BERLIN, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Germany's justice ‌ministry plans to present measures in the near future that would ‌allow authorities to more effectively combat the use of artificial intelligence to ‌manipulate images in ways that violate personal rights, a spokesperson said on Friday.

Grok, the built-in AI chatbot on billionaire Elon Musk's social media site X, has come under investigation in Europe for ‍its so-called "spicy mode", which allows users to generate sexually ‍explicit images.

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