US EditionUK privacy watchdog launches investigation into Grok
Britain's Information Commissioner's Office investigates xAI's Grok chatbot for potential misuse of personal data and generation of harmful sexualised content, including non-consensual deepfakes.
- On Feb 3, Britain's Information Commissioner's Office launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk's xAI chatbot Grok over personal data use and harmful sexualised content risks.
- Since the start of January, national regulators and governments have launched probes and bans, while the European Commission opened an inquiry on January 26 into Grok's illegal sexualised content.
- Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit raided X's Paris office on February 3 and French prosecutors said the probe covers alleged complicity in child pornographic images and deepfake defamation.
- Ofcom, Britain's media regulator, said it will continue its investigation while Indonesia's communications and digital ministry blocked Grok and Brazil's government gave xAI 30 days to curb fake sexualised content.
- The EU probe will assess risk‑mitigation under bloc rules and India's IT ministry sent X a formal notice on January 2 requiring takedown and a 72‑hour report, while Malaysia and the Philippines restored access after safety fixes.
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The UK's data protection regulator today launched an investigation into Elon Musk's social network X and artificial intelligence company xAI, to determine whether they are complying with UK data protection law when creating sexually explicit content with their artificial intelligence assistant Grok.
After the debate on sexualised AI images generated without consent, the British Data Protection Officer targets the Chatbot Grok – possible violations of the Data Protection Act.
On X, some Internet users do not hesitate to ask artificial intelligence to denud some people, without their consent, which has aroused a worldwide outcry.
UK data watchdog opens Grok probe
LONDON — The U.K.’s data protection watchdog has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s companies X and xAI, over the use of personal data by the Grok AI system to generate a flood of sexualized deepfakes. In a statement on Tuesday, the Information Commissioner’s Office said the “reported creation and circulation of such content raises serious concerns under U.K. data protection law and presents a risk of significant potential harm to th…
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