US EditionFrench Prosecutors Suspect Musk Encouraged Deepfakes Row to Inflate X Value
- On March 21, the Paris prosecutor's office said it alerted US authorities after suspecting Elon Musk encouraged sexualised deepfakes on X to inflate the company's value and contacted the US Department of Justice and French lawyers at the SEC on March 17.
- Amid ongoing probes since 2025, prosecutors say the investigation now includes Grok AI chatbot's alleged dissemination of Holocaust denials and sexually explicit deepfakes.
- Grok generated non‑consensual images after users tagged it or sent photos to its account on X, producing an estimated three million sexualised images including 23,000 involving children, the Center for Countering Digital Hate estimated.
- Legal pressure rose this week as French authorities searched X offices and summoned Elon Musk to a 'voluntary interview', while three women filed a lawsuit and a US jury found Musk misled Twitter shareholders.
- The planned June 2026 stock‑market listing is at the center of prosecutors' concerns, as Britain, European Union, and Ireland regulators probe Grok's sexualised deepfakes possibly boosting X and X AI's value after the SpaceX and X AI merger.
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Multibillionaire Elon Musk on Saturday described the Paris Public Prosecutor's Office's Office's "mental tainted" prosecutors who reported to the US authorities a possible "artificial valuation" of the X social network and the xAI artificial intelligence start-up, which he owns.
Multi- Milliard Elon Musk insulted the prosecutors in Paris after they had advanced the hypothesis that the scandal of Grok's sexual imagery would have been provoked to artificially increase the value of X and XAI companies, in the context of a possible list of fraud in 2026 by an entity resulting from SpaceX merger. "There are some returned ...
The Multi-Millian Elon Musk qualified him on Saturday for "mental input" to the prosecutors from Paris who signed a possible "artificial assessment" of the social network X and the start-up of the XAI artificial intelligence, which belongs to them.
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