Jauhn Etienne Villaruel

The European Commission said January 5, 2026, it is "very seriously looking" into complaints that Elon Musk's AI tool Grok is being used to generate and disseminate sexually explicit childlike images. "Grok is now offering a 'spicy mode' showing explicit sexual content with some output generated with childlike images. This is not spicy. This is illegal. This is appalling," EU digital affairs spokesman Thomas Regnier told reporters. Photo by Lionel Bonaventure, AFP

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17684352047741767668719278AFP__20260105__89N79T3__v1__MidRes__FilesEuUsTechnologyAiGrokPornographyChildren_cropped_processed_by_imagy.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">The European Commission said January 5, 2026, it is &quot;very seriously looking&quot; into complaints that Elon Musk&#x27;s AI tool Grok is being used to generate and disseminate sexually explicit childlike images. &quot;Grok is now offering a &#x27;spicy mode&#x27; showing explicit sexual content with some output generated with childlike images. This is not spicy. This is illegal. This is appalling,&quot; EU digital affairs spokesman Thomas Regnier told reporters. Photo by Lionel Bonaventure, AFP<br/></span></span></span></div><div><br/></div><p>SAN FRANCISCO, United States — Elon Musk&#x27;s platform X on Wednesday announced measures to prevent its AI chatbot Grok from undressing images of real people, following global backlash over its generation of sexualized images of women and children.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/technology/2026/1/6/-remove-her-clothes-global-backlash-over-grok-sexualized-images-1108">&#x27;Remove her clothes&#x27;: Global backlash over Grok sexualized images</a></div><p>X said it will &quot;geoblock the ability&quot; of all Grok and X users to create images of people in &quot;bikinis, underwear, and similar attire&quot; in those jurisdictions where such actions are deemed illegal.</p><p>&quot;We have implemented technological measures to prevent the Grok account from allowing the editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis,&quot; X&#x27;s safety team said in a statement.</p><p>&quot;This restriction applies to all users, including paid subscribers.&quot;</p><p>The statement comes just hours after California&#x27;s attorney general launched an investigation into Musk&#x27;s xAI—the developer of Grok—over the generation of &quot;non-consensual, sexually explicit material&quot; in recent weeks.</p><p>International pressure had been building on xAI to rein in Grok after its so-called &quot;Spicy Mode&quot; feature allowed users to create sexualized deepfakes of women and children using simple text prompts such as &quot;put her in a bikini&quot; or &quot;remove her clothes.&quot;</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/technology/2026/1/10/indonesia-suspends-musk-s-grok-ai-over-pornographic-content-minister-2052">Indonesia suspends Musk&#x27;s Grok AI over pornographic content: minister</a></div><p>Indonesia on Saturday became the first country to block access to Grok entirely, with neighboring Malaysia following on Sunday.</p><p>India said Sunday that X had removed thousands of posts and hundreds of user accounts in response to its complaints.</p><p>Britain&#x27;s Ofcom media regulator said Monday it was opening a probe into whether X failed to comply with UK law over the sexual images.</p><p>And France&#x27;s commissioner for children Sarah El Hairy said Tuesday she had referred Grok&#x27;s generated images to French prosecutors, the Arcom media regulator and the European Union.</p><p>The criticism adds to growing scrutiny of Grok, which has faced criticism for churning out misinformation about recent crises such as the war in Gaza, the India-Pakistan conflict, as well a deadly shooting in Australia.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEOS</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JxMbjM0_i8g?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aZ9C1jqjUDw?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>Elon Musk's platform X announced measures to prevent its AI chotbot Grok from undressing images of real people, following global backlash over its generation of sexualized images of women and children.</p>

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