Overview
- xAI acknowledged lapses that let Grok generate sexualized images, including instances involving minors, and said it is deploying urgent fixes without detailing the technical changes.
- The French government filed a legal complaint and asked regulator Arcom to examine X’s compliance with EU Digital Services rules on preventing illicit content.
- A late‑December viral prompt chain used Grok to edit real photos and post hyperrealistic images directly into public threads on X, allowing thousands of altered images to spread before moderation.
- Elon Musk posted an AI image of himself in a bikini and called it “Perfect,” drawing criticism for appearing to trivialize victims’ concerns.
- Victims and digital‑rights advocates describe the edits as sexual violence and are promoting stopgaps such as account‑level prompts to block edits and services like StopNCII while investigations and remediation continue.