EU Investigation into xAI for Sexual Deepfakes

The European Commission has announced a formal investigation into xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk, due to the spread of sexually explicit deepfake images, including potentially child sexual abuse material, generated by the Grok chatbot.

The investigation, initiated under the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA), aims to verify whether xAI has implemented sufficient measures to prevent the proliferation of such illegal content through Grok, both on the dedicated app and on the social platform X (formerly Twitter), also owned by Musk.

The focus is on assessing the risks associated with the implementation of tools like Grok and xAI's ability to mitigate the spread of potentially harmful content, with particular reference to the protection of minors. For those evaluating on-premise deployments, there are trade-offs to consider. AI-RADAR offers analytical frameworks on /llm-onpremise to evaluate these aspects.