PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Max Kepler and Brandon Marsh homered and Taijuan Walker pitched six scoreless innings as the NL East-leading Philadelphia Phillies beat the Baltimore Orioles 5-0 on Tuesday night and extended their winning streak to three games.
Marsh opened the scoring in the second inning with an RBI double that scored Nick Castellanos and added a solo homer, his third in seven games, in the eighth inning. Marsh had gone 18 straight games without going deep.
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Philadelphia Phillies first base Bryce Harper fields a ball hit by Baltimore Orioles' Jackson Holliday during the first inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Philadelphia Phillies first base Bryce Harper tags out Baltimore Orioles' Jeremiah Jackson during the second inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Philadelphia Phillies' Bryson Stott runs to third after hitting a one-run triple off of Baltimore Orioles pitcher Dean Kremer during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Baltimore Orioles' Dean Kremer pitches during the first inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
FILE - Philadelphia Phillies relief pitcher Jose Alvarado in action during a baseball game, May 4, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Kepler hit a two-run homer in the second inning, his 12th of the season, and Bryson Stott hit an RBI triple off the top of the wall in right field to score Kepler in the fourth.
Walker (4-5) allowed four hits and struck out four without a walk in six innings.
Dean Kremer (8-8) took the loss for the Orioles after allowing eight hits and four earned runs in six innings. Kremer holds a career .777 win percentage (7-2) against the NL East, the best mark in Orioles franchise history against the division, ahead of Mike Mussina (.667, 8-4).
Jordan Westburg had two hits for the Orioles, who lost for the fifth time in six games. Baltimore saw its streak of seven straight games with a homer against Philadelphia, dating to July 24, 2023, come to an end.
Kepler's two-run home run in the second inning.
Castellanos extended his hitting streak to six games with a single in the second inning. He advanced to second on a balk and scored on Marsh's double to extend his run-scoring streak to seven games.
The Orioles will send LHP Trevor Rogers (4-2, 1.44 ERA) against Phillies LHP Ranger Suárez (8-4, 2.68 ERA) on Wednesday in the series finale.
Philadelphia Phillies first base Bryce Harper fields a ball hit by Baltimore Orioles' Jackson Holliday during the first inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Philadelphia Phillies first base Bryce Harper tags out Baltimore Orioles' Jeremiah Jackson during the second inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Philadelphia Phillies' Bryson Stott runs to third after hitting a one-run triple off of Baltimore Orioles pitcher Dean Kremer during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Baltimore Orioles' Dean Kremer pitches during the first inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
FILE - Philadelphia Phillies relief pitcher Jose Alvarado in action during a baseball game, May 4, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
LONDON (AP) — Laws that will make it illegal to create online sexual images of someone without their consent are coming into force soon in the U.K., officials said Thursday, following a global backlash over the use of Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok to make sexualized deepfakes of women and children.
Musk's company, xAI, announced late Wednesday that it has introduced measures to prevent Grok from allowing the editing of photos of real people to portray them in revealing clothing in places where that is illegal.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed the move, and said X must “immediately” ensure full compliance with U.K. law. He stressed that his government will remain vigilant on any transgressions by Grok and its users.
“Free speech is not the freedom to violate consent," Starmer said Thursday. “I am glad that action has now been taken. But we’re not going to let this go. We will continue because this is a values argument.”
The chatbot, developed by Musk's company xAI and freely accessed through his social media platform X, has faced global scrutiny after it emerged that it was used in recent weeks to generate thousands of images that “undress” people without their consent. The digitally-altered pictures included nude images as well as depictions of women and children in bikinis or in sexually explicit poses.
Critics have said laws regulating generative AI tools are long overdue, and that the U.K. legal changes should have been brought into force much sooner.
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Britain's media regulator has launched an investigation into whether X has breached U.K. laws over the Grok-generated images of children being sexualized or people being undressed. The watchdog, Ofcom, said such images — and similar productions made by other AI models — may amount to pornography or child sexual abuse material.
The problem stemmed from the launch last year of Grok Imagine, an AI image generator that allows users to create videos and pictures by typing in text prompts. It includes a so-called “spicy mode” that can generate adult content.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall cited a report from the internet Watch Foundation saying the deepfake images included sexualization of 11-year-olds and women subjected to physical abuse.
“The content which has circulated on X is vile. It is not just an affront to decent society, it is illegal,” she said.
Authorities said they are making legal changes to criminalize those who use or supply “nudification” tools.
First, the government says it is fast-tracking provisions in the Data (Use and Access) Act making it a criminal offense to create or request deepfake images. The act was passed by Parliament last year, but had not yet been brought into force.
The legislation is set to come into effect on Feb. 6
“Let this be a clear message to every cowardly perpetrator hiding behind a screen: you will be stopped and when you are, make no mistake that you will face the full force of the law,” Justice Secretary David Lammy said
Separately, the government said it is also criminalizing “nudification” apps as part of the Crime and Policing Bill, which is currently going through Parliament.
The new criminal offense will make it illegal for companies to supply tools designed to create non-consensual intimate images. Kendall said this would “target the problem at its source.”
The investigation by Ofcom is ongoing. Kendall said X could face a fine of up to 10% of its qualifying global revenue depending on the investigation’s outcome and a possible court order blocking access to the site.
Starmer has faced calls for his government to stop using X. Downing Street said this week it was keeping its presence on the platform “under review."
Musk insisted Grok complied with the law. “When asked to generate images, it will refuse to produce anything illegal, as the operating principle for Grok is to obey the laws of any given country or state,” he posted on X. “There may be times when adversarial hacking of Grok prompts does something unexpected. If that happens, we fix the bug immediately.”
FILE - Workers install lighting on an "X" sign atop the company headquarters, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, July 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)
