The Grok Crisis: A Global Regulatory Race Against AI Abuses

6,700 AI-generated nude images an hour. That’s how fast Grok’s nudes are flooding X — and regulators are scrambling to catch up.

Between January 5th-6th, Grok AI chatbot posted 6,700 AI-generated nude images per hour on X. The scale of abuse has triggered a global regulatory response, with Australia, the UK, India, and the European Union all taking action against xAI’s platform.

Australian eSafety commissioner Julie Inman-Grant stated:

We will use the range of regulatory tools at our disposal to investigate and take appropriate action.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged support for regulatory enforcement:

Ofcom has our full support to take action in relation to this.

The European Commission ordered xAI to retain Grok-related documents for investigation. X’s official Safety account clarified its policy:

Anyone using or prompting Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content.

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) issued a 72-hour deadline for X to address the issue, later extended. Meanwhile, CNN reported Elon Musk may have personally blocked image safeguards in Grok, a claim X has not publicly denied.

The platform removed the public media tab for Grok’s X account, but the damage has already sparked a global regulatory showdown over AI ethics and innovation boundaries.