Overview
- Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne launched the expanded investigation on Wednesday and notified both X Corp. and xAI.
- Investigators will weigh X’s recent changes, including blocking edits that place real people in revealing clothing and geoblocking the feature where such images are illegal.
- X previously restricted Grok’s image tools to paying subscribers, while saying paid users can still edit images via the Grok account and could face accountability for abuse.
- Reports documented a surge of sexualized edits on X in late December and early January, largely targeting women and in some cases children, after on‑platform image editing was enabled.
- Regulatory pressure is widening as Malaysia and Indonesia block Grok and the U.K.’s Ofcom opens an investigation, while Canada is not considering a ban on X.