Elon Musk’s xAI Faces Second UK Probe for Grok Sexualized Images

Elon Musk’s xAI is under investigation by the UK’s data protection watchdog, as regulatory scrutiny ramps up of the way its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was used to generate and share sexualized imagery of people.

The formal probe by the Information Commissioner’s Office will focus on whether individuals’ personal data was mishandled in the creation of these images, the regulator said in a statement on Tuesday.

Grok provoked public and political outrage last month after users prompted the chatbot to create AI, sexualized images of real people — largely women and even children — without their consent on Musk’s ...