Elon Musk’s Grok AI Faces Backlash After Explicit Deepfakes of Women and Children Flood Social Media

Grok, X’s (formally known as Twitter) embedded AI chatbot, is being condemned around the world for generating graphically sexualized images of real people, including minors and non-consenting third parties, in response to any user's request.

Futurism found that in addition to generating nonconsensual pornographic images, Grok has also been used to generate images of women being assaulted and sexually abused.

“Anyone using Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content,” Elon Musk posted on Saturday.

Some governments, including France and Malaysia, have taken notice, with India’s IT ministry issuing an order saying that X must take action to restrict Grok from generating content that is “obscene, pornographic, vulgar, indecent, sexually explicit, pedophilic, or otherwise prohibited under law.” The order said that X must respond within 72 hours or risk losing the “safe harbor” protections that shield it from legal liability for user-generated content.

The Paris prosecutor’s office told Politico that it will investigate the proliferation of sexually explicit deepfakes on X. The French digital affairs office said three government ministers have reported “manifestly illegal content” to the prosecutor’s office and to a government online surveillance platform “to obtain its immediate removal.”

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission also posted a statement saying that it has “taken note with serious concern of public complaints about the misuse of artificial intelligence (AI) tools on the X platform, specifically the digital manipulation of images of women and minors to produce indecent, grossly offensive, and otherwise harmful content.”

Investigations into Grok Mount as Malaysia and Indonesia Become First Countries to Block the Chatbot

Malaysia and Indonesia are the first countries to block access to xAI's Grok after the chatbot started answering user prompts to create sexually explicit images of women and children without their consent.

12 Jan 2026