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OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team as part of a 'streamlining' process, another woman joined a lawsuit accusing Grok of generating CSAM, and Anthropic is watermarking text generated by Claude to comply with EU law

Engadget News + Next · Aug 17, 2026 · 8:18

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-Several departures have led to concerns that the company is ignoring safety in favor of growth

-As first reported by the Washington Post, the woman, named as Jane Doe 4 in the lawsuit, said that her stepfather used Grok to create "thousands of sexually explicit images of her as a child and traded them online."

-The company said its text watermarking will not have easy-to-see visuals, will not be distinguishable to the people who read it and will not be adding hidden characters to the text.
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