The European Fee on Monday mentioned it opened an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over the spreading of sexually specific materials by the AI chatbot Grok.
The probe is being performed underneath the European Union’s sweeping Digital Providers Act (DSA) regulation.
“The brand new investigation will assess whether or not the corporate correctly assessed and mitigated dangers related to the deployment of Grok’s functionalities into X within the EU,” the Fee, the EU’s govt arm, mentioned in a press release.
“This consists of dangers associated to the dissemination of unlawful content material within the EU, akin to manipulated sexually specific photos, together with content material that will quantity to little one sexual abuse materials.”
The Fee mentioned the dangers “appear to have materialised, exposing residents within the EU to severe hurt.”
Grok got here underneath hearth this yr after customers had been capable of immediate the system to generate sexualized photos of youngsters and different people.
Musk’s xAI mentioned earlier this month it had stopped Grok from having the ability to create sexualized photos of actual folks.
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