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Grok faces extra scrutiny over deepfakes
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X faces a brand fresh EU privacy investigation after its Grok chatbot generated nonconsensual deepfake pictures on the platform
ByKELVIN CHAN AP alternate author
February 16, 2026, 7:02 PM
LONDON — Elon Musk’s social media platform X faces a European Union privacy investigation after its Grok AI chatbot started spitting out nonconsensual deepfake pictures, Eire’s recordsdata privacy regulator said Tuesday.
Eire’s Data Protection Commission said it notified X on Monday that it modified into opening the inquiry below the 27-nation EU’s strict recordsdata privacy rules, including to the scrutiny X goes thru in Europe and other aspects of the world over Grok’s conduct.
Grok sparked a global backlash closing month after it started granting requests from X users to undress other folks with its AI image technology and editing capabilities, including inserting females in transparent bikinis or revealing attire. Researchers said some pictures perceived to encompass teenagers. The corporate later launched some restrictions on Grok, though authorities in Europe weren’t pleased.
The Irish watchdog said its investigation specializes in the unpleasant introduction and posting on X of “potentially wicked” nonconsensual intimate or sexualized pictures containing or though-provoking private recordsdata from Europeans, including teenagers.
X didn’t respond to a demand of for statement.
Grok modified into built by Musk’s synthetic intelligence company xAI and is abruptly accessible thru X, the attach its responses to consumer requests are publicly visible for others to scamper attempting.
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The watchdog said the investigation will stare to search out out whether or no longer X complied with the EU recordsdata privacy tips identified as GDPR, or Total Data Protection Regulation. Below the tips, the Irish regulator takes the lead on enforcing the bloc’s privacy tips because X’s European headquarters is primarily based in Dublin. Violations can lead to hefty fines.
The regulator “has been participating” with X since media reviews started circulating weeks earlier about “the alleged skill of X users to suggested the @Grok story on X to generate sexualized pictures of tangible other folks, including teenagers,” Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle said in a press statement.
Earlier this month, French prosecutors raided X’s Paris areas of work and summoned billionaire proprietor Elon Musk for questioning. In the meantime, the guidelines privacy and media regulators in Britain, which has left the EU, own opened their very own investigations into X.
The platform is already going thru a separate EU investigation from Brussels over whether or no longer it has been complying with the bloc’s digital rulebook for safeguarding social media users that requires platforms to curb the spread of unlawful swear equivalent to youngster sexual abuse field materials.
