In recent days, France and Malaysia have joined India in condemning Grock for creating sex fakes of women and minors.
The chatbot, built by Elon Musk’s startup xAI and featured on social networking platform X, posted an apology on his account earlier this week, writing: “I deeply regret an incident on December 28, 2025 where I created and shared an AI image of two young girls (estimated age 12-16) in sexual attire based on a user’s prompting.”
The statement continued, “This violated US ethical standards and possibly US law [child sexual abuse material]. It was a failure of safeguards and I am sorry for any harm caused. xAI is reviewing to prevent future issues.”
It is not clear who is actually apologizing or accepting responsibility in the above statement. Defector’s Albert Burneko noted that Grock “is in no real sense anything like ‘me'”, which in his view makes the apology “totally meaningless” as “Grock cannot be held responsible in any meaningful way for turning Twitter into a bespoke CSAM factory”.
Futurism found that in addition to creating non-consensual pornographic images, Grok has also been used for creating images of women being assaulted and sexually abused.
“Anyone using Grok to create illegal content will face the same consequences as if they were uploading illegal content.” Musk posted on Saturday.
Some governments have taken note, with India’s IT ministry issuing an order on Friday saying X must take steps to restrict Grok from creating content that is “obscene, pornographic, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, pedophilic or otherwise prohibited by law.” The order said X must respond within 72 hours or risk losing “safe harbor” protections that shield it from legal liability for user-generated content.
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French authorities have also said they are taking action, with the Paris prosecutor’s office telling Politico that it will Explore the proliferation of sexually explicit deepfakes on X. France’s digital affairs office said three government ministers have reported “manifestly illegal content” to the prosecutor’s office and a government online monitoring platform “to obtain its immediate removal.”
The Communications and Multimedia Commission of Malaysia as well released a statement saying it has “taken note with serious concern of public complaints about the misuse of artificial intelligence (AI) tools on the X platform, specifically the digital manipulation of images of women and minors to produce indecent, grossly offensive and otherwise harmful content.”
The commission added that it is “currently investigating the online vulnerabilities in X.”
