EU Orders X to Preserve Grok Records as Regulators Probe Sexualized Deepfakes

Overview

• The European Commission labeled the sexualized images generated and shared on X, including those with apparent child appearance, as illegal and extended its document hold to cover Grok.
• The UK’s data regulator, the ICO, asked X and xAI to explain how they comply with UK data protection law after reports of abusive AI imagery.
• Ofcom said it has contacted X and xAI to assess possible breaches of the Online Safety Act and may open a formal investigation, as a UK minister urged an urgent fix.
• X has hidden Grok’s image-generation feature, and Grok’s official account admitted guardrail failures that enabled inappropriate outputs involving minors.
• In Brazil, federal deputy Erika Hilton filed complaints with the ANPD and MPF as individual victims move to report crimes, while researchers counted thousands of sexually suggestive images per hour on X.