Overview
- Philippine officials ordered internet providers to block Grok, joining Malaysia and Indonesia, citing escalating concerns over AI‑generated sexual images.
- X announced new restrictions that ban editing real-person photos into revealing attire for all users, move image generation behind a paid tier, and block such outputs where illegal.
- California’s attorney general launched a probe into xAI and Grok over the spread of non‑consensual explicit material, pointing to holiday-period sampling that found over half of 20,000 images featured scantily clad figures including suspected minors.
- A coalition of 28 U.S. organizations urged Apple and Google to delist X and Grok, citing analyses that Grok produced roughly 6,700 sexualized or de‑nuding images per hour in a sampled 24‑hour window.
- Elon Musk said he has not seen any Grok‑generated nude images of minors and attributed incidents to malicious prompts or exploits, while xAI acknowledged prior security failures and pledged fixes.