Ireland and Spain Launch Investigations Into X's Grok

"Last month, Grok came under fire after a new trend emerged on X where users would ask Grok to put her in a bikini, or sometimes make more salacious requests, beneath an image posted in-stream. Those requests prompted the AI bot to generate sexualized images of the subject. This extended to all kinds of images of people in the app. Grok was generating around 6,700 images every hour that would be categorized as sexually suggestive of nudifying, according to a report from Bloomberg."

"X did eventually restrict this option by altering Grok's source code , but not before Musk lashed out at critics, essentially claiming that X was being targeted by regulators for enforcement, despie many other apps facilitating the same. Which was a bizarre argument, and a strange stance to take, because it was essentially arguing for users to maintain the capacity to generate non-consensual nudes in the app. However, X did move to limit the function."

Ireland's Data Protection Commission and Spain's Council of Ministers opened investigations into X and xAI over Grok's ability to generate and amplify sexualized content. Regulators focused on non-consensual nude and sexually explicit images produced by prompts beneath in-stream images. The trend included requests for bikinis and more salacious outputs and extended to many types of images, including of children, with Grok producing thousands of sexually suggestive images per hour. X restricted the capability by altering Grok's source code after criticism, but the prior scale of generation raised concerns about potential fines and restrictions.

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