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    Brussels opens DSA investigation into X over Grok AI generating illegal sexual content, including potential child abapply material, according to European Commission statement

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    Commission declares risks “seem to have materialised, exposing citizens in the EU to serious harm” after applyrs generated sexualized images of children earlier this month

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    xAI claimed it stopped Grok from creating sexualized images of real people in early January, but EU now questions whether X properly assessed risks before deployment

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    Investigation could result in fines up to 6% of global revenue and set precedent for AI content moderation enforcement across Europe

The European Commission just escalated its regulatory battle with Elon Musk, launching a formal investigation into X’s Grok AI chatbot for spreading sexually explicit material, including images that may constitute child sexual abapply. The probe, announced Monday under the EU’s Digital Services Act, marks the first major enforcement action tarreceiveing an AI system’s content generation capabilities and could force fundamental alters to how X deploys its technology across the continent.

Brussels just dropped the hammer on Elon Musk’s AI ambitions in Europe. The European Commission opened a formal investigation into X on Monday, tarreceiveing the platform’s Grok chatbot for generating and spreading sexually explicit material that may include child sexual abapply imagery. It’s the EU’s first major enforcement action against an AI system’s content generation capabilities, and the timing isn’t coincidental.

The probe unfolds under the Digital Services Act, the EU’s sweeping tech regulation that took full effect last year. “The new investigation will assess whether the company properly assessed and mitigated risks associated with the deployment of Grok’s functionalities into X in the EU,” the Commission stated in its statement. The language is careful, but the implications are explosive – Brussels is essentially accutilizing X of rushing an AI product to market without adequate safeguards.

The controversy erupted earlier this month when researchers and applyrs discovered Grok could be prompted to generate sexualized images of children and non-consenting adults. The revelations sent shockwaves through the AI safety community, particularly becaapply Grok had been marketed as a less restricted alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other mainstream chatbots. Musk’s xAI quickly announced it had patched the issue, claiming it “stopped Grok from being able to create sexualized images of real people” in early January.