Elon Musk’s X faces bans and investigations over nonconsensual bikini images

The UK communications regulator Ofcom launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s social media platform X regarding its AI chatbot, Grok following reports that Grok has been used to generate nonconsensual sexual deepfakes. Leon Neal/Getty Images

Leon Neal/Getty Images

Indonesia and Malaysia temporarily blocked X’s chatbot, Grok, over the weekend after it made scores of fake images publicly sexualizing mostly women and, in some instances, children late last year.

Governments around the world are also launching investigations. The latest came on Monday as the UK media regulator, Ofcom, launched a probe into

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