Overview
- California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a formal probe into xAI to determine whether laws were broken after reports of nude and explicit images of women and children generated by Grok.
- Governor Gavin Newsom condemned the platform’s capabilities, calling the feature that can undress real people, especially children, vile and a magnet for potential predators.
- UK regulator Ofcom has launched a separate investigation after receiving what it called extremely alarming complaints, with potential penalties including fines of up to 10% of global revenue and possible blocking in the UK.
- Elon Musk said he is unaware of any instances of Grok creating images of naked minors, asserted the system rejects illegal requests, and said engineers fix issues linked to hostile hacking.
- xAI says it enforces zero tolerance for child sexual exploitation and has restricted editing of real people’s photos, while Malaysia and Indonesia have already blocked Grok and UK leaders have threatened tighter control or a ban.