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Elon Musk’s Grok said it was scrambling to fix flaws in the artificial intelligence (AI) tool after users claimed it turned pictures of children or women into erotic images.
Complaints of abuses began hitting X, formally Twitter after an “edit image” button was rolled out on Grok in late December 2025.
Lapses
The button allowed users to modify any image on the platform – with some users deciding to partially or completely remove clothing from women or children in pictures, according to the complaints.
“We’ve identified lapses in safeguards and are urgently fixing them,” Grok said in a post on X AFP reported.
Grok maker xAI, run by Musk, replied to a query with a terse, automated response that said: “The mainstream media lies.”
Media outlets
The Grok chatbot, however, did respond to an X user who queried it on the matter, after they said that a company in the United States could face criminal prosecution for knowingly facilitating or failing to prevent the creation or sharing of child abuse.
Media outlets in India reported on Friday that government officials there are demanding X quickly provide them details of measures the company is taking to remove “obscene, nude, indecent, and sexually suggestive content” generated by Grok without the consent of those in such pictures.
The public prosecutor’s office in Paris meanwhile expanded an investigation into X to include new accusations that Grok was being used for generating and disseminating child pornography.
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France
The initial investigation against X was opened in July following reports that the social network’s algorithm was being manipulated for the purpose of foreign interference.
French ministers reported sexually explicit content generated by Grok to prosecutors, describing it as “sexual and sexist” and “manifestly illegal.”
They also referred the matter to the French media regulator Arcom to assess compliance with the European Union’s Digital Services Act.
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