When you own the regulators, creating sexualized images of women and children isn’t a bug—it’s a business model. From the moment Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, began rolling out its Grok chatbot to paid X subscribers in 2023,

Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot on Thursday started restricting the ability for non-paying users to create deepfake, sexualized images after global pushback from users and governments. Late last month, some users began tagging Grok on Musk's social media platform X with prompts such as “put her in a bikini” to generate nonconsensual images of real people on X.

Britain's leader says all options on the table if Musk's X platform doesn't stop Grok AI tool being used to generate non-consensual sexualized images.

The UK government says Elon Musk's platform X limiting Grok AI image edits to paid users is "insulting" to victims of misogyny and sexual violence.

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.