The European Commission, the 27-nation bloc’s executive arm, said on Monday that it would investigate whether social media platform X protected consumers by properly assessing and mitigating risks related to Grok’s functionalities.
Its probe comes two weeks after British media regulator Ofcom launched its own investigation over concerns Grok was creating sexually intimate deepfake images, and after Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia temporarily blocked the chatbot.
The Commission said earlier this month that the AI-generated images of undressed women and children being shared on X were unlawful and appalling, joining condemnation across the world.
“Non-consensual sexual deepfakes of women and children are a violent, unacceptable form of degradation,” EU tech Chief Henna Virkkunen said in a statement.
X referred to a statement issued on January 14, in which it said owner xAI had restricted image editing for Grok AI users and blocked users, based on their location, from generating images of people in revealing clothing in “jurisdictions where it’s illegal”. It did not identify the countries.
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