Paris, France, March 21, 2026 (AFP) - French prosecutors suspect Musk encouraged deepfakes row to inflate X value

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French prosecutors said Saturday they had alerted US authorities to a suspicion that tech tycoon Elon Musk had encouraged controversy over sexualised deepfakes on X to "artificially" increase the value of his company. The social media network's Grok AI chatbot stirred outrage earlier this year over it generating images of naked women and girls without their consent. "The controversy sparked by sexually explicit deepfakes generated by Grok (X's AI......

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