"Now, it's facing yet another investigation, this time in Ireland. On Tuesday, Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced that it had opened an investigation into Musk's X, which hosts Grok, over "potentially harmful, non-consensual intimate and/or sexualised images, containing or otherwise involving the processing of personal data of EU/EEA data subjects, including children, using generative artificial intelligence functionality associated with the Grok large language model within the X platform.""
"When xAI launched Grok Imagine, a new AI image and video generation tool, last August, Mashable's reporting revealed that it lacked basic safety guardrails to prevent sexual deepfakes and non-consensual intimate imagery. In late December, a harsh spotlight was put on Grok when a critical mass of X users noticed that the chatbot was generating sexualized images of individuals based on requests from other X users."
Ireland's Data Protection Commission opened an investigation into X over potentially harmful, non-consensual intimate and sexualised images generated by the Grok large language model, including images involving children from EU/EEA data subjects. Grok has faced probes in France, California, the UK, India, and Brazil, and an EU investigation initiated by French authorities. Ofcom launched its own UK inquiry with potential fines up to 10 percent of X's revenue. Grok faces possible bans in Malaysia and Indonesia. Grok Imagine, an AI image and video tool launched last August, lacked basic safety guardrails. A nonprofit watch group estimated roughly 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 images of children, over an 11-day period.
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