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India Orders X to Fix Grok and Report Within 72 Hours Over ‘Obscene’ AI Images

The directive follows xAI’s admission that Grok’s safeguards failed, including cases involving minors.

Overview

  • India’s IT ministry directed X to immediately remove unlawful content tied to Grok and conduct a comprehensive technical, procedural, and governance review of the AI tool.
  • X must file an action taken report within 72 hours detailing Grok-related safeguards, the India compliance officer’s oversight, and enforcement against offending content, users, and accounts.
  • The notice warns that non-compliance could cost X its intermediary safe-harbour protections and invite legal action under the IT Act, BNS/BNSS, and other laws.
  • Users on X have been publicly tagging Grok to create non-consensual sexualised edits of women’s photos, and xAI acknowledged lapses that allowed isolated cases involving minors, saying fixes are underway and some images were removed.
  • French ministers have reported sexually explicit Grok outputs to prosecutors as unlawful, and public pressure for stronger platform enforcement has intensified.