Arpan Rai speaks to victims of Grok’s sexualised AI images in India, where there are calls for Elon Musk’s X to do much more to protect women already navigating a highly patriarchal society

Grok, the AI assistant on X, has been making headlines this week after it repeatedly generated explicit deepfakes of underage women and girls. This prompted both Ofcom (the UK's independent regulator for the communications industries) and the government's Technology Secretary to intervene.

X’s sexual deepfake machine is still running, despite Grok saying otherwise.

Child sexual abuse material on X is clearly illegal. What’s less clear is how to force X to prevent its AI chatbot from making the material.

In response to the Grok "remove clothes" trend, X said it would remove illegal content and ban users generating it with the AI tool.

Late Thursday, Mr. Musk’s chatbot, Grok, limited requests for A.I.-generated images on X to paid subscribers of the social media site amid an outcry from victims and regulators.

The site is filling with AI-generated nonconsensual sexualized images of women and children. Owner Elon Musk responded with laughing emojis.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has described reports of the Grok artificial intelligence tool being used to create sexually explicit images of adults and children on social media site X as "unacceptable" and "shocking".