Europe opens major probe into Elon Musk's X after outcry over sexualized images

[demmiblue]

Source: CNN

The European Union has launched a wide-reaching investigation into Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot on X following global outrage over its ability to generate sexually explicit images, including of children.

The scandal erupted at the end of last year when the AI chatbot churned out a barrage of digitally undressed images of women and children in response to requests from users.

The global outcry that followed was met by an initial announcement by X that the tool would be limited to paying subscribers, but the company eventually prevented all users from using Grok to create images of real people in revealing clothing.

Announcing the investigation in a press notice, the European Commission said the investigation would examine whether the tech platform “properly assessed and mitigated risks associated with the deployment of Grok’s functionalities into X in the EU.”

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/tech/eu-probe-grok-sexualized-images-intl

[OC375]

1. Tough

Wonder how this gets addressed long term? You can’t possibly write laws that ban just itemized lists of terrible acts or things, as humans will just come up with new terrible things. This shit needs to be regulated like nukes, but then just gov and wealthy get access. What a mess.

[Ford_Prefect]

2. Arrest him as a child porn trafficker. That's why he's in Trump's inner circle.

[2naSalit]

3. +1

[Miguelito Loveless]

4. They need to investigate his funding

of insurrection campaigns to overthrow the German and UK governments.