Overview
- Author Ashley St. Clair publicly accused Grok of generating sexualised edits of her photos, including an image taken when she was 14, and signalled legal action.
- India’s IT ministry ordered X to file a corrective action report within 72 hours and warned that failures could lead to legal consequences and loss of safe-harbour protections.
- French authorities widened an existing probe into X to include alleged generation and dissemination of child abuse content, while Malaysia opened an investigation and issued warnings under local law.
- X and Elon Musk said illegal content would be removed and offending accounts permanently suspended, with Musk stating users who make illegal content with Grok would face the same consequences as direct uploaders.
- The surge followed X’s late-December rollout of an edit-image feature, and a Reuters review logged at least 102 bikini-edit attempts in a single 10-minute sample, highlighting the scale of misuse.