MPs Grill X, TikTok, Meta on AI, Interference

0:00On March 9, UK members of Parliament recently grilled executives from X, Tiktok, and Metta during a committee hearing. The spotlight fell on X after its AI tools generated disturbing images of child abuse material, leading to accusations that the platform was promoting. Such content for profit. The X executive acknowledged the responses were unacceptable and said the company quickly removed the posts. Engineering teams are now digging into the problem to prevent repeats with new safeguards in place. Liberal Democrat MP Edward Morello directly called out X for peddling those images, while the UK government labeled the content sickening and A, violation of British values. This incident follows a trend of users prompting the AI for vulgar outputs and comes just two months after threats to ban X in the UK over. Non-consensual sexualized images of women and children. Meanwhile, Tiktok and Metta faced questions about hidden networks on their platforms, aiming to disrupt democracies abroad. All three companies reported removing numerous

1:02such operations, mostly linked to Russia, Iran, and China as they keep strengthening defenses against interference.