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The European Commission has condemned the reported spread of explicit, child-like content on social media platform X, calling the material \u201cappalling\u201d and \u201cdisgusting\u201d.<\/p>\n
European Union digital affairs spokesman Thomas Regnier made the comments to reporters on Monday following weeks of complaints over a new feature on X\u2019s\u00a0integrated AI chatbot Grok<\/a>\u00a0used to generate pornographic content, including depicting children.<\/p>\n \u201cGrok is now offering a \u2018spicy mode\u2019 showing explicit sexual content with some output generated with child-like images,\u201d said Regnier. \u201cThis is not spicy. This is illegal. This is appalling. This is disgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n Regnier said the European Commission is \u201cvery seriously looking\u201d into the matter, and such content has \u201cno place in Europe\u201d.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the public prosecutor\u2019s office in Paris, France expanded an investigation into X to include accusations that Grok \u2013 created by Elon Musk\u2019s xAI company \u2013 has been used to generate and spread child pornography.<\/p>\n In late December, a novel \u201cedit image\u201d feature on Grok allowed users to modify any image on the platform. Some users decided to ask Grok to partially or completely remove clothing from women or children in pictures.<\/p>\n Grok complied with numerous requests from users to alter photographs of women to depict them in revealing outfits, such as translucent bikinis.<\/p>\n Grok on Friday admitted \u201clapses in safeguards\u201d and said it\u2019s \u201curgently fixing them\u201d. \u201cCSAM [Child Sexual Abuse Material] is illegal and prohibited,\u201d it said in a post.<\/p>\n But AI safety experts said the platform ignored months of warnings that such abuse was imminent.<\/p>\n \u201cIn August, we warned that xAI\u2019s image generation was essentially a nudification tool \u200cwaiting to be weaponised,\u201d said Tyler Johnston, executive director of AI watchdog group The Midas Project. \u201cThat\u2019s basically what\u2019s played out.\u201d<\/p>\n X, which\u00a0Musk acquired in 2022<\/a>, has already faced a backlash from the EU for its policies on advertising and content moderation.<\/p>\n Brussels in December issued the platform a 120-million-euro ($140m) fine for breaching the EU\u2019s digital content rules on transparency in advertising, and for methods for verifying users.<\/p>\n\u2018Waiting to be weaponised\u2019<\/h2>\n