{"id":985546,"date":"2026-01-16T08:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985546"},"modified":"2026-01-16T08:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:13:09","slug":"us-teachers-union-says-it-is-leaving-x-over-sexualised-ai-images-of-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/us-teachers-union-says-it-is-leaving-x-over-sexualised-ai-images-of-children\/","title":{"rendered":"US teachers union says it is leaving X over sexualised AI images of children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Federation of Teachers says it is leaving X, citing the social media site&#8217;s creation and \u2060dissemination of &#8220;sickening&#8221; images of children in various states of undress. <\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Reuters, AFT President Randi Weingarten said that the site had already been degraded by extremists and trolls since Elon Musk&#8217;s \u200c2022 takeover, \u200cbefore which the platform was known as Twitter. But the recent proliferation of nonconsensual images of women and children in \u200cbikinis or underwear generated by X&#8217;s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, had made the site unusable, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Federation of Teachers says it is leaving X, citing the social media site&#8217;s creation and \u2060dissemination of &#8220;sickening&#8221; images of children in various states of undress. In an interview with Reuters, AFT President Randi Weingarten said that the site had already been degraded by extremists and trolls since Elon Musk&#8217;s \u200c2022 takeover, \u200cbefore which the platform was known as Twitter. But the recent proliferation of nonconsensual images of women and children in \u200cbikinis or underwear generated by X&#8217;s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, had made the site unusable, she said.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985546","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=985546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}