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17-01-2026
LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday that Elon Musk’s X is acting to ensure full compliance with UK law after the country’s media regulator launched a probe into the platform over sexualized imagery produced by the Grok AI chatbot.
“I have been informed this morning that X is acting to ensure full compliance with UK law,” Starmer told parliament, adding that the government would take further measures if needed.
Shortly after Starmer spoke, Musk posted on X that Grok will always comply with the law of the countries in which it operates.
“When asked to generate images, it (Grok) will refuse to produce anything illegal, as the operating principle for Grok is to obey the laws of any given country or state,” he said.
Earlier in January, X said that it was restricted requests to undress people in images to paying users.
Ofcom launched an investigation into the social media platform on Monday over concerns Grok was creating sexually intimate deepfake images in violation of its duty to protect people in the UK from illegal content.
Technology minister Liz Kendall said a new law making it an offence to create sexual deepfakes would come into force this week to tackle the images, which she called “weapons of abuse”.
Elon Musk’s Grok faces global scrutiny for sexualized AI deepfakes
Governments and regulators from Europe to Asia are cracking down on sexually explicit content generated by Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok on social media, launching probes, imposing bans and demanding safeguards, in a growing global push to curb illegal material.
Europe
The European Commission extended a retention order sent to X last year to retain and preserve all internal documents and data related to Grok until the end of 2026, amid concern over Grok-generated sexualized “undressed” images.
On Monday, Britain’s media regulator Ofcom launched an investigation into X to determine whether sexually intimate deepfakes produced by Grok violated its duty to protect people in the UK from content that could be illegal, under the country’s Online Safety Act framework.
In France, government ministers said they had referred sexually explicit Grok-generated content circulating on X to prosecutors and also alerted French media regulator Arcom to check the platform’s compliance with the European Union’s Digital Services Act.
Asia
India’s IT Ministry sent X a formal notice on January 2 over alleged Grok-enabled creation or sharing of obscene sexualized images, directing the content to be taken down and requiring a report on the actions being taken within 72 hours.
Indonesia’s communications and digital ministry said it had blocked access to Grok, a move that digital minister Meutya Hafid said was meant to protect women and children from AI-generated fake pornographic content, citing Indonesia’s strict anti‑pornography laws.
Oceania
Australia’s online-safety regulator eSafety said it was investigating Grok-generated “digitally undressed” sexualized deepfake images, assessing adult material under its image‑based abuse scheme and noting current child-related examples it had reviewed did not meet the legal threshold for child sexual abuse material under Australian law. (Int’l News Desk)
