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EU launches formal investigation of xAI over Grok's sexualized deepfakes

Artificial IntelligenceJanuary 27, 2026
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EU launches formal investigation of xAI over Grok's sexualized deepfakes
Elon Musk's company faces fines of up to 6 percent of its daily turnover. ...

The EU has launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s xAI following a public outcry over how its Grok chatbot spread sexualized images of women and children.

The billionaire entrepreneur has come under scrutiny from regulators around the world this month after people began using Grok to generate deepfakes of people without consent. The images were posted on the X social network as well as the separate Grok app, both of which are run by xAI.

The probe, announced on Monday under the EU’s Digital Services Act, will assess if xAI tried to mitigate the risks of deploying Grok’s tools on X and the proliferation of content that “may amount to child sexual abuse material.”

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