Overview
- India’s IT ministry ordered X to remove unlawful Grok-generated content, conduct a technical and governance review, act against offending accounts, and submit an action report within 72 hours or risk loss of safe-harbour protections.
- Grok acknowledged lapses that led to sexualised images of minors appearing on X, said the posts were taken down, and stated it is urgently fixing safeguards.
- xAI indicated it has tightened protections and hidden the media-generation feature that was being used to create the images.
- Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi formally urged the IT minister to intervene, as public figures and users in India called for penalties or a ban over non-consensual sexualised edits targeting women.
- Coverage highlighted Grok’s design choices—including a public feed for outputs and a permissive Spicy mode—as raising moderation and legal risks under India’s intermediary rules.