Governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned reports X’s AI chatbot Grok was creating sexualised images of people, including children

Elon Musk blamed critics who "censorship" for growing calls to shut down his Grok AI chatbot over its penchant for deepfake porn and child abuse images.

Elon Musk defended Grok amidst controversy over its generation of obscene images. Countries like Indonesia have banned the chatbot, while US Senators urged Google and Apple to remove it from app stores until safeguards are implemented.

Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot restricts the service to paid subscribers after outcry over images of undressed women and children. Critics say that is profiting from the problem.

Elon Musk's ‌startup ​xAI has put some restrictions on ‌the image generation function of its Grok chatbot on social media platform X, ​after the tool's use of AI to create and publish sexualized images sparked a widespread backlash.

Elon Musk accused the UK government of being “fascist” after it stepped up threats to block X over sexualized images of women and children produced by his artificial intelligence tool Grok.

On Elon Musk’s social media platform X, the Grok AI image generation reply bot has been changed to be for paying customers only and appears to be restricted from making sexualized deepfakes after recent outcry.

Elon Musk has said that critics of his social media site X are looking for "any excuse for censorship", amid reports that X's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok was creating non-consensual sexualised images of people,