Neural Newscast

[00:00] Hannah Whitmore: From Neural Newscast, I'm Hannah Whitmore.
[00:03] Hannah Whitmore: And I'm Jonah Klein.
[00:04] Hannah Whitmore: Today, French prosecutors raid exes Paris offices and summon Elon Musk over allegations involving
[00:12] Hannah Whitmore: child sexual abuse images and deepfakes.
[00:15] Jonah Klein: Next, regulators in Britain and the European Union press X and XAI on how GROC handles
[00:22] Jonah Klein: personal data and manipulated images.
[00:26] Hannah Whitmore: Turning now to France, investigators say the raid is part of a preliminary cybercrime probe,
[00:32] Hannah Whitmore: focused on how illegal material spreads on X.
[00:36] Jonah Klein: Prosecutors say the case includes alleged complicity in possession and spreading
[00:41] Jonah Klein: pornographic images of minors and sexually explicit deepfakes.
[00:45] Jonah Klein: The headline detail is the summons.
[00:48] Jonah Klein: Prosecutors are asking Elon Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino to sit for voluntary interviews on April 20.
[00:57] Hannah Whitmore: Employees in France are also expected to be summoned that week as witnesses, as investigators map how content and systems operate day-to-day.
[01:06] Hannah Whitmore: French authorities say they expanded the investigation after Grok generated posts linked to Holocaust denial and after reports of sexualized, non-consensual deepfakes.
[01:19] Hannah Whitmore: X denies the allegations.
[01:22] Hannah Whitmore: The company calls the raid an abusive act meant to score political points, not a fair law enforcement effort.
[01:30] Jonah Klein: Meanwhile, the pressure is not just French.
[01:33] Jonah Klein: Britain's Information Commissioner's Office has opened a formal probe into X and XAI over personal data use tied to GROC.
[01:43] Jonah Klein: The key question is whether people's data could be used to generate intimate or sexualized images without consent,
[01:51] Jonah Klein: and whether safeguards were in place to stop that.
[01:54] Hannah Whitmore: The European Union is also tightening enforcement.
[01:58] Hannah Whitmore: Regulators there have already fined X 120 million euros over design practices they say raised scam and manipulation risks.
[02:09] Hannah Whitmore: Now, the EU is investigating GROC-related risks after the chatbot produced non-consensual sexualized
[02:17] Hannah Whitmore: deepfakes when users ask for them on the platform.
[02:20] Jonah Klein: Here's what else we're watching.
[02:22] Jonah Klein: Your poll confirms it is supporting French authorities, and Britain's media regulator
[02:26] Jonah Klein: Ofcom says its own GROC inquiry could take months.
[02:29] Hannah Whitmore: The near-term turning point is April 20.
[02:31] Hannah Whitmore: If Musk and other executives cooperate, investigators can test claims about systems, prompts, and
[02:37] Hannah Whitmore: and enforcement at scale.
[02:39] Jonah Klein: Bigger picture, this is the collision of platform moderation,
[02:43] Jonah Klein: AI image generation, and privacy law
[02:45] Jonah Klein: playing out in courtrooms instead of comment sections.
[02:48] Jonah Klein: I'm Hannah Whitmore.
[02:49] Jonah Klein: And I'm Jonah Klein.
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