Elon Musk’s controversial Grok artificial intelligence model appears to have been restricted on one app, while remaining largely unchanged on another

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) charity says its analysts have discovered "criminal imagery" of girls aged between 11 and 13 which "appears to have been created" using Grok. The AI tool is owned by Elon Musk's firm xAI. It can be accessed either through its website and app, or through the social media platform X.

Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot has limited some aspects of its Imagine image generation features to paid subscribers on X, days after international uproar over the AI tool “digitally undressing” people, including children,

Late Thursday, Mr. Musk’s chatbot, Grok, limited requests for A.I.-generated images on X to paid subscribers of the social media site amid an outcry from victims and regulators.

Some people have used Grok to create sexualised images of children and women, and Downing Street has today accused social media site X, which runs the AI tool, of "insulting the victims of misogyny and sexual violence" with its response to criticism. The company said it has now limited the use of this image function to those who pay a monthly fee.

Elon Musk has been ridiculed after the world’s richest man posted an AI-generated video of a woman saying, “I will always love you.” In the short clip shared by Musk, 54, on X early Saturday morning, the young brunette smiles at the camera before ...

The chatbot, which is accessed through Musk’s social media platform X, has in the past few weeks been granting a wave of what researchers say are malicious user requests to modify images, including putting women in bikinis or in sexually explicit positions.

Critics of social media site X "want any excuse for censorship", Elon Musk has claimed as his website faces the threat of being shut down over deepfake pornography and child abuse images.