Musk’s X faces probes on explicit images on Grok, CNBC reports

Elon Musk’s X is facing fresh probes in Europe, India, and Malaysia after its Grok chatbot began generating deepfake explicit images, some depicting child sex abuse, CNBC’s Lora Kolodny reports. The U.K.’s Ofcom has requested information from X regarding the Grok issues, while in the U.S., the National Center for Sexual Exploitation is calling on the DOJ and the FTC to investigate the matter. Publicly traded companies in the social media space that compete with X, the platform formerly known as Twitter (TWTR), include Meta Platforms (META), Alphabet (GOOG) (GOOGL), Pinterest (PINS), Reddit (RDDT) and Snap (SNAP).