THE HAGUE, March 26 (Xinhua) -- A Dutch court on Thursday banned Grok and X from generating and distributing "undressing" images and child pornography. The ruling applies to content depicting individuals residing in the Netherlands, as well as to the production and distribution of such content within the country.
The Dutch online abuse expertise center Offlimits and the independent civil society group Victim Support Fund announced last month that they had initiated summary proceedings against Grok, an AI tool available on social media platform X. The organizations sought an immediate ban, arguing that the tool enables users to partially or fully undress individuals without their consent and to generate and share images depicting the sexual abuse of minors.
According to the Amsterdam District Court, Grok and X said that they are committed to combating such content and have included prohibitions in their terms of service, along with measures to prevent its generation and distribution. However, the court found that Offlimits has sufficiently demonstrated reasonable doubt about the effectiveness of those measures.
The court said violations of the ban incur a penalty of 100,000 euros (115,369 U.S. dollars) per day, up to a maximum of 10 million euros (11.54 million dollars). It also prohibited X from offering Grok on its platform until the tool complies with the imposed restrictions.
Also on Thursday, the European Parliament made a decision on so-called "nudifier" apps, with a majority voting in favor of a ban on AI systems to create or manipulate sexually explicit or intimate images resembling identifiable individuals without their consent. ■