"A statement on the Commission's website said that the investigation would "assess whether the company [X] properly assessed and mitigated risks associated with the deployment of Grok's functionalities into X in the EU." "This includes risks related to the dissemination of illegal content in the EU, such as manipulated sexually explicit images, including content that may amount to child sexual abuse material," it said, saying that EU citizens had already been exposed "to serious harm" from such risks."
"EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen said in a statement that the Commission wanted to "determine whether X has met its legal obligations under the DSA, or whether it treated rights of European citizens including those of women and children as collateral damage of its service." She called sexualized images of women and children made without consent "a violent, unacceptable form of degradation.""
The European Commission launched an investigation under the Digital Services Act to assess whether X properly assessed and mitigated risks from deploying Grok AI in the EU. The probe targets risks including dissemination of manipulated sexually explicit images and content that may amount to child sexual abuse material, following reports of users creating sexualized images of women and minors. The Commission said EU citizens have been exposed to serious harm and aims to determine whether X met its DSA obligations and protected the rights of European citizens, including women and children. X said xAI restricted some image editing and blocked generation of revealing images where illegal, without naming countries. The move may provoke criticism from the U.S. administration, which views EU tech regulation as a threat to U.S. companies' digital revenues in Europe.
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