{"id":993290,"date":"2026-02-18T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993290"},"modified":"2026-02-18T08:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T02:37:20","slug":"california-builds-ai-oversight-unit-and-presses-on-xai-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/18\/california-builds-ai-oversight-unit-and-presses-on-xai-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"California builds AI oversight unit and presses on xAI investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California Attorney General Rob Bonta is building an artificial intelligence accountability program as his office probes Elon Musk&#8217;s xAI over the generation of non-consensual sexually explicit images, he told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday. The California Attorney General&#8217;s office \u200cmoved quickly last month \u2060to send \u2060a cease-and-desist letter to xAI, as regulators globally investigated the company over sexualized content that its AI chatbot Grok produced of adults and potentially minors, Bonta said. Bonta said his office is seeking confirmation that the conduct has stopped and remains in discussions with the company. He said xAI deflected responsibility and still permits some sexualized content generation for paying subscribers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Attorney General Rob Bonta is building an artificial intelligence accountability program as his office probes Elon Musk&#8217;s xAI over the generation of non-consensual sexually explicit images, he told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday. The California Attorney General&#8217;s office \u200cmoved quickly last month \u2060to send \u2060a cease-and-desist letter to xAI, as regulators globally investigated the company over sexualized content that its AI chatbot Grok produced of adults and potentially minors, Bonta said. Bonta said his office is seeking confirmation that the conduct has stopped and remains in discussions with the company. He said xAI deflected responsibility and still permits [&hellip;]<\/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-993290","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\/993290","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=993290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}