WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswoman Madeleine Dean (D-PA-04), Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar (R-FL-27) — three of the authors of the TAKE IT DOWN Act — wrote a letter to the Department of Justice to demand an investigation into the proliferation of non-consensual intimate images across social media platforms, namely X’s affiliated chatbot, Grok.
During a 24-hour analysis of images Grok posted to X from January 5 to January 6, the chatbot generated about 6,700 sexually explicit or suggestive images every hour. During that same 24-hour period, the other top five websites for such content averaged 79 AI undressing images per hour.
Last year, the lawmakers’ TAKE IT DOWN Act was signed into law — becoming the first federal legislation to address the rise in artificial intelligence (AI) and the subsequent and harmful increase in sexually explicit “deepfakes.”
“These images pose a serious threat to the victim's privacy and dignity. They also may violate the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which the President signed into law last year,” the lawmakers concluded.
Read the full text of the letter here.
Rep. Madeleine Dean is a mother, grandmother, attorney, professor, former four-term member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and U.S. Representative for the Fourth District of Pennsylvania.
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