The European Commission connected Monday said it opened an probe into Elon Musk's X implicit the spreading of sexually explicit worldly by the AI chatbot Grok.
The probe is being conducted nether the European Union's sweeping Digital Services Act (DSA) regulation.
"The caller probe volition measure whether the institution decently assessed and mitigated risks associated with the deployment of Grok's functionalities into X successful the EU," the Commission, the EU's enforcement arm, said successful a statement.
"This includes risks related to the dissemination of amerciable contented successful the EU, specified arsenic manipulated sexually explicit images, including contented that whitethorn magnitude to kid intersexual maltreatment material."
The Commission said the risks "seem to person materialised, exposing citizens successful the EU to superior harm."
Grok came nether occurrence this twelvemonth aft users were capable to punctual the strategy to generate sexualized images of children and different individuals.
Musk's xAI said earlier this period it had stopped Grok from being capable to make sexualized images of existent people.
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