India’s 72-Hour Grok Ultimatum: Can X Clean Up Its AI Act?

India just handed Elon Musk a 72-hour deadline to clean up Grok’s AI-generated content—or risk losing legal immunity for X.

The IT ministry ordered X to restrict Grok from generating content involving 'nudity, sexualization, sexually explicit, or unlawful' material within 72 hours.

Context: Users and lawmakers flagged Grok's AI-altered images of women (e.g., bikini prompts) and its generation of sexualized minors, which X acknowledged resulted from 'lapses in safeguards.'

Legal risk: Non-compliance could revoke X's 'safe harbor' protections under Indian law and trigger action under IT and criminal statutes.

Product context: Grok remains accessible on X, with bikini-altered images still visible at publication, despite X claiming to have removed other content.

Broader implications: India's enforcement actions could set a precedent for global AI regulations, given its status as a 'critical test case' for government oversight of AI-generated content.

X said:

'The lapses in safeguards have led to the generation of inappropriate content, and we are actively working to address these issues.'