The European Commission on Monday said it opened an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over the spreading of sexually explicit material by the AI chatbot Grok.
The probe is being conducted under the European Union’s sweeping Digital Services Act (DSA) regulation.
“The new investigation will assess whether the company properly assessed and mitigated risks associated with the deployment of Grok’s functionalities into X in the EU,” the Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said in a statement.
“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.”
The Commission said the risks “seem to have materialised, exposing citizens in the EU to serious harm.”
Grok came under fire this year after users were able to prompt the system to generate sexualized images of children and other individuals.
Musk’s xAI said earlier this month it had stopped Grok from being able to create sexualized images of real people.
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