France Slams Musk’s Grok Over Glut of Sexual Images of Minors

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has generated sexualized images of people, including minors, on the social media platform X in response to user prompts of late, drawing rebukes from officials including the French government, Olivia Solon and Mark Bergen reported for Bloomberg News.

The French government accused Grok of generating “clearly illegal” sexual content on X without people’s consent. (Photo: Grok / xAI)

Grok created and published images of minors in minimal clothing, in apparent violation of its own acceptable-use policy, which prohibits the sexualization of children.

Some of the images were later taken down.

The French government accused Grok of generating “clearly illegal” sexual content on X without people’s consent, saying the activity may violate the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA).

The regulation requires large platforms to mitigate the risk of illegal content spreading, France said in a statement.

Representatives for xAI, the company that develops Grok and operates X, did not respond to requests for comment.

Grok posted on X in response to user questions Friday that it had identified “lapses in safeguards” that were being “urgently” fixed, echoing earlier remarks from xAI employee Parsa Tajik, who said the team was “looking into further tightening” its guardrails.