The European Commission announced on Monday that it has opened an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over the spread of sexually explicit content by the AI chatbot Grok.
The study is being conducted under the European Union’s comprehensive Digital Services Act (DSA) regulations.
“The new investigation will assess whether the company adequately assessed and mitigated the risks associated with deploying Grok’s capabilities to X within the EU,” the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said in a statement.
“This includes the risks associated with the distribution of illegal content within the EU, such as manipulated sexually explicit images, including content that may constitute child sexual abuse.”
The European Commission said the risk “appears to have materialized and puts EU nationals at serious risk.”
Grok came under fire this year after users were able to prompt the system to generate sexual images of children and other individuals.
Musk’s xAI announced earlier this month that it had stopped Grok from creating sexual images of real people.
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