French and Malaysian authorities are investigating Grok for allegedly creating fake videos of a sexual nature

Over the past few days, France and Malaysia have joined India in condemning Grok for creating fake sexualized clips of women and minors.

The chatbot, built by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI, which appeared on his social media platform X, I posted an apology “I deeply regret the incident that occurred on December 28, 2025, where I created and shared an AI image of two young girls (ages 12-16) in sexual clothing based on a user prompt,” she wrote on her account earlier this week.

The statement continued: “This violated ethical standards and potential US laws regarding (child sexual abuse material). This was a failure of safeguards, and I am sorry for any harm caused. xAI is reviewing the matter to prevent future issues.”

It is not clear who is actually apologizing or accepting responsibility in the above statement. Dissident Albert Bernico noted That Grok “is not in any real sense anything like ‘I’,” which makes the apology, in his view, “entirely without substance” since Grok “cannot be held accountable in any meaningful way for turning Twitter into an on-demand CSAM factory.”

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

“Anyone who uses Grok to create illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they uploaded illegal content.” Musk posted on Saturday.

Some governments have noticed this The Indian Ministry of Information Technology issued the order on Friday It says X must take action to prevent Grok from creating content that is “obscene, pornographic, vulgar, indecent, sexually explicit, child sexual, or otherwise prohibited by law.” The order states that

French authorities have also said they are taking action, with the Paris prosecutor’s office telling Politico it will Investigating the spread of sexually explicit deepfakes on X. France’s digital affairs office said three government ministers had informed the public prosecutor’s office and a government online monitoring platform of “clearly illegal content” to “obtain its immediate removal”.

Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission as well Published a statement It said it had “taken note with grave 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 grossly inappropriate, offensive, and other harmful content.”

The commission added that it is “currently investigating online harms in X.”