WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand issued the following press release:

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand joined seven Democratic colleagues in calling on America's largest tech and social media companies to address the rise of non-consensual, sexualized, AI-generated images being created and appearing on their platforms.

In a letter to the companies, the senators expressed alarm over the spread of this content and asked for more information on how platforms plan to remove such images, prevent their distribution, and notify victims.

Since these images began appearing on social media platforms, reports found that Grok was generating about one non-consensual, sexualized image per minute. The creation of these AI-generated images m...