French ministers report Grok's sex-related content on the X platform to prosecutors
Source: Reuters
PARIS, Jan 2 (Reuters) - French ministers have reported to prosecutors sexually explicit content generated by Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok on the X platform, saying in a statement on Friday the "sexual and sexist" content was "manifestly illegal".
Grok said earlier on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this.
The ministers said they had also reported the content to French media regulator Arcom for checks on whether the content complied with the European Union's Digital Services Act.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/technology/french-ministers-report-groks-sex-related-content-x-platform-prosecutors-2026-01-02/
One of the most depressing things is that this happens constantly and blatantly and nobody seems to give a shit.
— Buttadeus (@thewanderingjew.bsky.social) 2026-01-02T12:01:05.258Z
Attilatheblond
(8,240 posts)edited due to not consuming enough coffee yet
AZJonnie
(2,737 posts)with a big fat "NO, I don't do that sort of thing". Hell, I'm pretty sure there's already some that do, like I bet Leonardo would shut you down immediately if you asked it to do that. And that seems like a very logical safeguard which will protect minors without having to expend (potentially a lot) of resources to determine the age of the face in the picture. Just make it always respond like "No, I don't take clothes off people in pictures, period". Seems simple!
mopinko
(73,286 posts)even if its a pic of an adult. just no.
eta- this fit the definition of rape, no?
AZJonnie
(2,737 posts)It was after a particularly subby public declaration Trump had made towards Putin, and lets just say my prompt involved the words "Putin, Trump, and mild-BDSM themed clothing" and Leonardo was having none of it, with messages that were generic like "I don't portray famous figures with sexualized themes" types of things, like I didn't sense it was being "political", just that it has a policy against doing that sort of thing, period. And in the end I thought "that's good, actually".
Old Crank
(6,649 posts)Child pornographer.