{"id":984494,"date":"2026-01-10T08:36:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984494"},"modified":"2026-01-10T08:47:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:17:36","slug":"grok-restricts-free-images-amid-deepfake-storm-india-says-move-falls-short-what-went-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/10\/grok-restricts-free-images-amid-deepfake-storm-india-says-move-falls-short-what-went-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Grok restricts free images amid deepfake storm; India says move falls short \u2013 What went wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following major global backlash across continents for publicly generating sexualized deepfakes targeting women including minors, Elon Musk\u2019s AI chatbot Grok is now preventing non-paying users from generating or editing images. <\/p>\n<p>Post the update, Grok  on Friday responded to image altering requests with the message: \u201cImage generation and editing are currently limited to paying subscribers. You can subscribe to unlock these features.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following major global backlash across continents for publicly generating sexualized deepfakes targeting women including minors, Elon Musk\u2019s AI chatbot Grok is now preventing non-paying users from generating or editing images. Post the update, Grok on Friday responded to image altering requests with the message: \u201cImage generation and editing are currently limited to paying subscribers. You can subscribe to unlock these features.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}