Sexual deepfakes on X: Elon Musk focused by a report from French justice in Washington | EUROtoday

A month earlier than his summons to France, Elon Musk is as soon as once more within the sights of French justice. The Paris prosecutor’s workplace has actually reported to the American authorities a attainable “artificial valuation” of firms X and X AI by the richest man on the earth.

“The controversy sparked by the deepfakes of a sexual nature generated by Grok (AI of X) could have been generated on purpose, in order to artificially promote the companies X and

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The latter then issued, on March 17, a “spontaneous transmission of information” to the American Department of Justice, “via the office of international criminal assistance of the French Ministry of Justice”.

This transmission was additionally despatched “for the benefit of French lawyers from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which is the American federal body for the regulation and control of financial markets”, particulars the general public prosecutor.

When contacted, X’s lawyer in France was not instantly reachable.

This transmission was made whereas the Paris prosecutor’s workplace is investigating the social community X and notably summoned Elon Musk on April 20 for a free listening to.

It is inside the framework of this investigation that the Parisian magistrates consider they’ve recognized attainable different reprehensible actions on the a part of Elon Musk, and wished to “draw the attention of the SEC to information that appeared (…) and was accessible in open source”, in line with the general public prosecutor.

Grok celebrated

According to Le Monde, which revealed this report, the prosecution refers specifically to “several messages from Elon Musk, posted in the midst of a controversy and which the magistrates interpret as so many incitements to generate non-consensual images”.

In these messages, “Elon Musk rejoices, with many emojis, in the ‘undressing’ capabilities of his artificial intelligence engine, going so far as to relay his own image, in which his chatbot makes him wear a bikini”, underlines Le Monde. “At the same time, Elon Musk published around twenty messages celebrating the presence of the Grok application at the top of the rankings of the most downloaded applications in various countries.”

The social community X has been focused because the starting of 2025 by a preliminary investigation by the Paris prosecutor’s workplace.

The investigations relate to suspicions of algorithmic bias, complicity within the possession of pictures of minors of a kid pornography nature, complicity within the dissemination, providing or making obtainable in an organized group of pictures of minors of a kid pornography nature, deepfake of a sexual nature, and even negationism.

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They led to a search of X’s French premises initially of February. Network

However, the French justice system appeared open to an trade with Elon Musk, aged 54: he was summoned for questioning within the type of a free listening to moderately than police custody. Linda Yaccarino, former basic director of X, can be summoned on the identical date.

These free hearings “of managers must allow them to explain their position on the facts and, where applicable, the compliance measures envisaged”, underlined in February the Paris prosecutor, Laure Beccuau. Employees of X are additionally summoned from April 20 to 24 “to be heard as witnesses”.

With AFP