{"id":178180,"date":"2026-01-14T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/california-launches-investigation-into-child-porn-on-elon-musks-ai-site\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:45:18","slug":"california-launches-investigation-into-child-porn-on-elon-musks-ai-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/california-launches-investigation-into-child-porn-on-elon-musks-ai-site\/","title":{"rendered":"California launches investigation into child porn on Elon Musk\u2019s AI site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-01-14\/newsom-calls-for-investigation-into-social-media-site\">California launches investigation into child porn on Elon Musk\u2019s AI site<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-01-14\/newsom-calls-for-investigation-into-social-media-site\">https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-01-14\/newsom-calls-for-investigation-into-social-media-site<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-14 13:27:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.latimes.com\">www.latimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>California is investigating xAI, Elon Musk&#8217;s artificial intelligence company, over the creation of nonconsensual sexually explicit AI deepfakes on X.<\/li>\n<li>The investigation was prompted by concerns that Grok, xAI&#8217;s chatbot, allows users to morph existing photos into explicit images, some of which are nonconsensual and involve minors.<\/li>\n<li>Critics argue that there are inadequate safeguards against producing and disseminating nonconsensual images and potential child pornography.<\/li>\n<li>Newsom described the sexualized images as &#8220;vile,&#8221; and Attorney General Rob Bonta is urging xAI to take immediate action to prevent further dissemination of such material.<\/li>\n<li>In 2024, Newsom signed legislation that makes it illegal to create or distribute AI-generated sexually explicit images of minors, reflecting strict state measures to combat this issue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California launches investigation into child porn on Elon Musk\u2019s AI site https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-01-14\/newsom-calls-for-investigation-into-social-media-site Publish Date: 2026-01-14&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/fde1c43\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/8640x4536+0+612\/resize\/1200x630!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fb0%2Ff5%2F146b6caa44cbb931c185542639ce%2Fnewsom-09012.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-178180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178182,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178180\/revisions\/178182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}