X’s deepfake machine is infuriating policymakers around the globe

Lauren Feiner / theverge - X's Grok chatbot hasn't stopped accepting users' requests to strip down women and, in some cases, apparent minors to AI-generated bikinis. According to some reports, the flood of AI-generated images includes more extreme content that potentially violates …

1 month / techspot

1 month / theverge / Lauren Feiner

Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X

1 month / reddit / /u/MetaKnowing

Media mix-up: Questioning Grok reportage inaccuracies

Journalistic Malpractice: No LLM Ever ‘Admits’ To Anything, And Reporting Otherwise Is A Lie

1 month / techdirt / Mike Masnick

Regulatory clampdown: Governments seek answers on explicit outputs

Government accused of dragging its heels on deepfake law over Grok AI

1 month / bbc

Illegal Images Allegedly Made by Musk’s Grok, Watchdog Says

1 month / bloomberg / Olivia Solon

UK regulators swarm X after Grok generated nudes from photos

1 month / theregister / Connor Jones

MeitY Finds X’s Report on Grok ‘Undressing’ Images Inadequate, Seeks Takedown Info

1 month / medianama / Azdhan

Grok’s nudes test Europe’s resolve to stand up to US tech

2 months / politico / Pieter Haeck

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Grok AI Sparks International Investigations After Creating Explicit Images of Children

eWEEK Staff / eweek - Elon Musk's initial reaction sparked additional controversy when he responded with laughing emojis to AI-generated bikini images.The post Grok AI Sparks International Investigations After Creating Explicit Images of Children appeared first on eWEEK.

#ai #techpolicy #aiethics #genai #governance #law #censorship #contentmoderation #grokai #digitalprivacy

Global Regulatory Crackdown (6)
Sexual Explicit Content Controversies (6)
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Global Regulatory Crackdown

X faces possible sanctions as Indonesia tightens AI rules

1 month / e27 / Sainul

Elon Musk faces new fight in Australia over 'abhorrent' deepfakes on Grok

2 months / capitalbrief / Finn McHugh

Elon Musk's AI Chatbot Grok Is Facing Potential Bans - Here's Why

2 months / bgr

EU Calls Grok's Child Images 'Illegal' as Global Crackdown Intensifies

2 months / decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz

Tracking Regulator Responses to the Grok 'Undressing' Controversy

2 months / techpolicy

Government demands Musk's X deals with 'appalling' Grok AI deepfakes

2 months / bbc

Sexual Explicit Content Controversies

AI chatbot Grok under fire for sexual images

1 month / semafor / Tom Chivers

Musk’s Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X

1 month / bloomberg / Cecilia D'Anastasio

Grok Is Pushing AI ‘Undressing’ Mainstream

2 months / wired / Matt Burgess, Maddy Varner

People are using Grok to create lewd images of women and young girls

2 months / fastcompany / Chris Stokel-Walker

Grok is undressing children — can the law stop it?

2 months / theverge / Hayden Field

Grok AI Sparks International Investigations After Creating Explicit Images of Children

2 months / eweek / eWEEK Staff

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New with @regret.bsky.social: Grok’s creation of harmful “undress” images is relentless. Even today, after days of scrutiny, Grok was churning out ‘bikini’ and underwear images of women every few seconds. Researchers estimate that Grok has become the

2 months / bsky / @mattburgess1.bsky.social / mattburgess1.bsky.social

The scale of the AI-fueled, nonconsensual sexualization of women in photos on X is staggering. The internet has suffered tools like this for years, but never at this scale, with this reach, and this out in the open. from @regret.bsky.social and @mattburge

2 months / bsky / @brbarrett.bsky.social / brbarrett.bsky.social

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has generated a flood of sexualized images of women and minors posted to the social media platform X. Regulators around the world are responding by opening inquiries, demanding takedowns, and threatening legal action. Tech Poli

2 months / bsky / @justinhendrix.bsky.social / justinhendrix.bsky.social

UK regulator asks X about reports its AI makes 'sexualised images of children'

bbc - Elon Musk's social media platform has warned users not to use Grok to generate illegal content.

#techpolicy #aiethics #genai #government #india #law #contentmoderation #xai #grokai #eu

Global Regulatory Investigations (6)
Other Coverage (1)
Platform Accountability (4)
Safe Harbour Policy Threats (3)
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Global Regulatory Investigations

Elon Musk's X faces probes in Europe, India, Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children

2 months / cnbc

Grok under investigation for sexualized deepfake generation

2 months / mashable

EU Condemns Musk’s Grok for Illegal Sexualized Images of Kids

2 months / bloomberg / Olivia Solon

UK regulator asks X about reports its AI makes 'sexualised images of children'

2 months / bbc

UK watchdog in ‘urgent contact’ with Musk’s X over AI-generated sexualized images of children

2 months / politico / Mizy Clifton

France and Malaysia investigate Grok for sexualized deepfakes

2 months / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Other Coverage

Grok's AI CSAM Shitshow

2 months / 404media / Jason Koebler

Platform Accountability

Elon Musk's xAI Refuses to Rein In Grok as Non-Consensual Deepfakes Run Wild

2 months / decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz

X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced

2 months / ycombinator

X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced

2 months / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger

Grok apologizes for sharing sexualized images of children

2 months / techxplore

Safe Harbour Policy Threats

From CSAM to Deepfakes: X Faces Safe Harbor Revoke Threat Over Grok’s Obscene Content

2 months / medianama / Azdhan

Centre Mulls Revoking X’s Safe Harbour Over Grok Misuse: Report

2 months / inc42 / Palak Sharma

One-Minute Daily AI News 1/4/2026

2 months / reddit / /u/Excellent-Target-847

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foreign regulators are on it - usa regulators mum on xAI Grok deepfake porn problems… www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/i...

2 months / bsky / @lorak.bsky.social / lorak.bsky.social

With Grok, Elon Musk has, in a perverse way, sort of succeeded at doing something Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman have tried: Running a social media site where AI is integrated and that people actually use. The major downsides? Yeah, a whole lot:

2 months / bsky / @404media.co / 404media.co

We are experiencing world events like the kidnapping of Maduro through the lens of the most depraved AI you can imagine.

2 months / bsky / @404media.co / 404media.co

All of this is bad: AI models are often trained on images of children, AI is used disproportionately against women, X is generally a cesspool, etc. Elon Musk of all people has not shown any indication that he remotely cares about any of this, and has ev

2 months / bsky / @404media.co / 404media.co

And as this is happening in realtime with real world events, mainstream media have demonstrated that they do not know or care to know the first thing about by writing articles about LLMs. There were dozens of articles explaining that “Grok apologizes,” w

2 months / bsky / @404media.co / 404media.co

www.404media.co/groks-ai-csa...

2 months / bsky / @tepski.tech / tepski.tech

Musk is now peddling paedophilia Anyone remaining on his X site is complicit in this absolute horror

2 months / bsky / @neilmackay.bsky.social / neilmackay.bsky.social

U.K. communications watchdog Ofcom is looking into whether X may be in breach of British online safety regulations following a series of reports that its AI chatbot Grok generated sexually explicit images of children.

2 months / bsky / @politico.eu / politico.eu

France to investigate deepfakes of women stripped naked by Grok

Klara Durand, Océane Herrero, Émile Marzolf / politico - Hundreds of women and teenagers have reported their photos published on social media have been “undressed” by Grok.

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Non-Consensual Image Alterations (5)
Platform Accountability & Liability (4)
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Non-Consensual Image Alterations

How Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping point

2 months / reddit / /u/Well_Socialized

Grok is undressing anyone, including minors

2 months / theverge / Elissa Welle

France to investigate deepfakes of women stripped naked by Grok

2 months / politico / Klara Durand, Océane Herrero, Émile Marzolf

Elon Musk's Grok AI alters images of women to digitally remove their clothes

2 months / bbc

Global outrage as X’s Grok morphs photos of women, children into explicit content

2 months / reddit / /u/F0urLeafCl0ver

Platform Accountability & Liability

MeitY Sends Notice To X Over Grok Non-Consensually Editing, Removing Clothing, From Pictures

2 months / medianama / Prabhanu Kumar Das

Users prompt Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot to remove clothes in photos then 'apologize' for it

2 months / theregister / Matt Rosoff

No, Grok can’t really “apologize” for posting non-consensual sexual images

2 months / arstechnica / Kyle Orland

Grok Responds to User Requests to Create Sexual Images of Women, Raising Platform Liability Concerns

2 months / medianama / Prabhanu Kumar Das

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French and Malaysian authorities are investigating Grok for generating sexualized deepfakes

2 months / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

The Policy Implications of Grok's 'Mass Digital Undressing Spree'

2 months / techpolicy

No, Grok can’t really “apologize” for posting non-consensual sexual images | Letting the unreliable Grok be its own “spokesperson” lets xAI off the hook.

2 months / reddit / /u/ControlCAD

French ministers report Grok's sex-related content on the X platform to prosecutors

2 months / reddit / /u/FinancialGarage245

Several French government ministers have reported the unlawful production of sexualised material without consent to the police and prosecutors. The UK government, which published a high profile strategy on misogyny just before Christmas, has yet to say or

2 months / bsky / @sundersays.bsky.social / sundersays.bsky.social

www.politico.eu/article/fran...

2 months / bsky / @sundersays.bsky.social / sundersays.bsky.social

As Grok is used to spread images of women and girls undressed, misogyny is being encouraged and reinforced by Twitter/X. Good to see the French authorities trying to act, but where is the British government on this? Does it have the stomach for this fight

2 months / bsky / @natashawalter.bsky.social / natashawalter.bsky.social

2026: Hunt Musk. Arrest Musk. Sue Musk. www.politico.eu/article/fran...

2 months / bsky / @h3d1.bsky.social / h3d1.bsky.social

French authorities to investigate Grok nude deepfakes www.politico.eu/article/fran...

2 months / bsky / @stevepeers.bsky.social / stevepeers.bsky.social

feels like a great pretext for countries to justify banning twitter/x if only the political and media classes didn’t continue believing there was some continued value to posting there

2 months / bsky / @parismarx.com / parismarx.com

Elon Musk's Grok AI posted CSAM image following safeguard 'lapses'

Steve Dent / engadget - Elon Musk's Grok AI has been allowing users to transform photographs of woman and children into sexualized and compromising images, Bloomberg reported. The issue has created an uproar among users on X and prompted an "apology" from the bot itself. "I deep…

#techpolicy #aiethics #genai #media #technology #contentmoderation #elonmusk #grokai #regulation

Grok Safeguard Failures (8)
Public Reactions (1)
Regulatory Backlash (3)
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Grok Safeguard Failures

Elon Musk's Grok under fire for generating explicit AI images of minors

2 months / axios / Josephine Walker

xAI admits that Grok generated images of minors in minimal clothing, part of a larger problem with deepfakes

2 months / mashable

Grok Blames ‘Lapses In Safeguards’ After Posting Sexual Images Of Children

2 months / reddit / /u/MetaKnowing

Grok's image editing tool generated sexualized images of children, forcing xAI to acknowledge safety gaps

2 months / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot blames safeguard ‘lapses’ over child sexual images

2 months / ft

Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children

2 months / cnbc

Elon Musk's Grok AI posted CSAM image following safeguard 'lapses'

2 months / engadget / Steve Dent

Grok Posts Sexual Images of Minors After ‘Lapses in Safeguards’

2 months / bloomberg / Olivia SolonMark Bergen

Nvidia's $20 billion Groq IP deal bolsters AI market domination — hardware stack and key engineer behind Google TPUs included in bombshell agreement

tomshardware - Nvidia has announced a $20 billion deal to acquire Groq’s intellectual property, though not the company itself, and absorb key members of its engineering team.

#ai #chips #nvidia #gpu #aiethics #datacenter #deeptech #acquisitions #grokai #intellectualproperty

Groq investor sounds alarm on data centers

2 months / ycombinator

Why Nvidia’s Groq deal is so key for the future of AI

2 months / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Groq’s staggering Nvidia deal has strong Canadian connections

2 months / betakit / Madison McLauchlan

Five Things to Know About Nvidia’s $20 Billion Licensing Deal

2 months / wsj / Kate Clark

Nvidia's $20 billion Groq IP deal bolsters AI market domination — hardware stack and key engineer behind Google TPUs included in bombshell agreement

2 months / tomshardware

Exclusive: Groq investor sounds alarm on data centers

2 months / axios / Dan Primack

Nvidia strikes largest deal in company history

2 months / therundown / Zach Mink

Nvidia deal shows why inference is AI's next battleground

2 months / axios / Megan Morrone

Tesla is adding a new alert to stop you from leaving your phone behind

digitaltrends - Tesla has confirmed that its upcoming 2025 Holiday Update will introduce a new feature that will alert drivers when they leave their phone in the car.The post Tesla is adding a new alert to stop you from leaving your phone behind appeared first on Digital…

#software #aiethics #tesla #gadget #ux #technology #elonmusk #grokai #updates #automotive

Tesla’s Holiday Update Lets You Put Grok in Charge of Mapping Out Directions

2 months / gizmodo / Bruce Gil

Tesla is adding a new alert to stop you from leaving your phone behind

2 months / digitaltrends

Teslas 2025 holiday update brings Grok navigation, Santa Mode, and more

2 months / mashable

Grok navigation, Photobooth, and helpful utility features arrives with Tesla 2025 Holiday Update

2 months / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Elon Musk blames 'adversarial prompting' after Grok spewed embarrassing, sycophantic praise

Karissa Bell / engadget - Stop me if you've heard this one before: xAI is once again nuking a bunch of posts from Grok on X after the chatbot made a series of outrageous claims. This time, though, the company isn't cleaning up a bunch of pro-Hitler posts, but a bout of cringe-indu…

#ai #aiethics #genai #business #chatgpt #technology #elonmusk #grokai

11 Things Grok Says Elon Musk Does Better Than Anyone https://gizmodo.com/11-things-grok-says-elon-musk-does-better-than-anyone-2000689254

3 months / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

Gizmodo har sammanställt 11 saker som Elon är king på. Favoriten måste nog ändå vara sista punkten: "11. Elon would’ve been better at hiding from the Nazis than Anne Frank"

3 months / bsky / @cj.khpodden.se / cj.khpodden.se

11 Things Grok Says Elon Musk Does Better Than Anyone

3 months / gizmodo / Matt Novak

France moves against Musk’s Grok chatbot after Holocaust denial claims

3 months / go

When Your AI Chatbot Thinks You're God: Inside Grok's Musk Worship Spiral

3 months / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Grok generates sycophantic praise for Elon Musk after new update

3 months / mashable

Elon Musk blames 'adversarial prompting' after Grok spewed embarrassing, sycophantic praise

3 months / engadget / Karissa Bell

Grok says Elon Musk is better than basically everyone, except Shohei Ohtani

3 months / techcrunch / Amanda Silberling

Grok’s Elon Musk worship is getting weird

3 months / theverge / Adi Robertson

Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says

3 months / 404media / Jason Koebler

Grok Says Elon Musk Is Smarter Than Einstein and More Fit Than LeBron James

3 months / gizmodo / Matt Novak

xAI Launches Grok 4.1, Targeting Emotional Intelligence and Reliability to Top AI Benchmarks

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - xAI has launched Grok 4.1, with improvements in conversational ability and reliability. It already tops the LMArena leaderboard and aims to fix the hallucination issues of its predecessors.The post xAI Launches Grok 4.1, Targeting Emotional Intelligence a…

#ai #software #ml #genai #chatgpt #performance #technology #xai #grokai #updates

Google Warns of Bubble Economics While Spending $75 Billion on AI

3 months / implicator / Marcus Schuler

They Updated Grok. It’s Very Eager to Please

3 months / gizmodo / Mike Pearl

Grok 4.1 tops emotional intelligence scores yet drifts into sycophancy

3 months / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Grok 4.1 arrives with free access as xAI races to match GPT 5.1

3 months / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

xAI Launches Grok 4.1, Targeting Emotional Intelligence and Reliability to Top AI Benchmarks

3 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

AA-Omniscience: New AI Reliability Benchmark Reveals Top Models Are More Likely to Hallucinate

3 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

xAI's Grok 4.1 Tops Leaderboards by Trading Safety for Personality

3 months / implicator / Maria Garcia

Elon Musk Launches Grokipedia to Take On ‘Propaganda’ Wikipedia

Jon Swartz / techstrong - Is the world ready for Grokipedia? Elon Musk, xAI's billionaire founder, thinks so. This week, he unveiled Grokipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopedia positioned as an alternative to Wikipedia amid ongoing conservative criticism of the established plat…

#governance #internet #wikipedia #technology #contentmoderation #elonmusk #grokai #digitalprivacy

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Launches With AI-Cloned Pages From Wikipedia

4 months / theverge / John Gruber

Elon Musk Launches Grokipedia to Take On ‘Propaganda’ Wikipedia

4 months / techstrong / Jon Swartz

Podcast: Grokipedia is Cringe

4 months / 404media / Joseph Cox

Grokipedia is racist, transphobic, and loves Elon Musk

4 months / theverge / Robert Hart

Elon Musk launches Grokipedia, an AI-written rival to Wikipedia

techspot - Elon Musk has introduced Grokipedia, a digital encyclopedia that relies on artificial intelligence rather than human editors to compile and update entries. The new platform, developed through his artificial intelligence company xAI, marks his most direct …

#ai #startups #innovation #digitaltransformation #aiethics #internet #wikipedia #technology #elonmusk #grokai

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn't worried about Elon Musk's Grokipedia: 'Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now'

4 months / cnbc

Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human https://www.404media.co/grokipedia-is-the-antithesis-of-everything-that-makes-wikipedia-good-useful-and-human/ [1/2]

4 months / bsky / @gorekhaa.bsky.social / gorekhaa.bsky.social

"Wednesday, as part of his ongoing war against Wikipedia because he does not like his page, Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, a fully AI-generated “encyclopedia” that serves no one and nothing other than the ego of the world’s richest man." www.404

4 months / bsky / @onekade.bsky.social / onekade.bsky.social

What Is Grokipedia? Elon Musk’s xAI Unveils AI-Powered Wikipedia Rival

4 months / iphoneincanada / John Quintet

"No, wait, avoid wiki" - Elon Musk's Grokipedia is a biased AI slop

4 months / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human

4 months / 404media / Jason Koebler

Elon Musk's Grokipedia launches, filled to the brim with plagiarism and AI slop

4 months / theregister / Brandon Vigliarolo

Grokipedia, Elon Musk's AI-powered encyclopedia, wants to dethrone Wikipedia

4 months / theshortcut / Reece Bithrey

Elon Musk launches Grokipedia to compete with online encyclopedia Wikipedia

4 months / techxplore

Elon Musk launches Grokipedia, an AI-written rival to Wikipedia

4 months / techspot

Elon Musk’s Version of Wikipedia Is Live. Here’s what the difference is

Mike Pearl / gizmodo - Grokipedia exists. You can read it if you want.

#ai #software #internet #apps #wikipedia #technology #xai #elonmusk #grokai #bugs

Grokipedia copies the bias it claims to fix

4 months / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Musk Unveils AI-Powered Wikipedia Challenger Grokipedia

4 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

Elon Musk’s AI-powered Wikipedia competitor goes live after a rocky launch

4 months / cnbc

Elon Musk’s xAI Launches Grok-powered ‘Grokipedia’ Encyclopedia

4 months / thurrott / Laurent Giret

Grokipedia’s “AI-verified” pages show little change from Wikipedia

4 months / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Elon Musk Launches Grokipedia With Copied Wikipedia Pages and Right-Leaning Bias

4 months / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points

4 months / wired / Reece Rogers

Elon Musk’s Version of Wikipedia Is Live. Here’s what the difference is

4 months / gizmodo / Mike Pearl

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages

4 months / theverge / Jay Peters

X's Grokipedia is online after it briefly crashed out

4 months / engadget

Elon Musk’s Grok is cleared for federal government use

Matt Tate / engadget - Despite Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s very public spats and seemingly still ongoing feud, the White House has remained committed to supporting the former’s AI ambitions. And today, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced that it has reached an …

#ai #aiethics #government #technology #xai #elonmusk #grokai

Elon Musk's Grok AI to be used by US government at a price of 42 cents per agency— Trump admin joining Meta, OpenAI in recent trend of AI govt contracts

5 months / tomshardware

xAI Offers Federal Agencies Grok AI Models and Support for 42 Cents

5 months / pymnts / PYMNTS

AI that once called itself MechaHitler will now be available to the US government for $0.42

5 months / theregister / Brandon Vigliarolo

Elon Musk’s Grok is cleared for federal government use

5 months / engadget / Matt Tate

Elon Musk’s xAI offers Grok to federal government for 42 cents

5 months / techcrunch / Rebecca Bellan

Trump Administration Agrees to Use AI Models From Musk’s xAI