After the attorney general announced the investigation, X Safety said it would be putting restrictions on who could generate images using Grok.

The announcement comes just days after Grok drew global outcry and scrutiny for generating highly sexualized deepfake images of people without their consent.

The platform's latest controversy involves Grok creating deepfake pornography of young girls and women at users' requests.

Malaysian authorities have announced legal action against Elon Musk's social media platform X and its AI unit xAI

In response to slow movement from X's teams, countries have begun tamping down access to xAI's bot and standalone app, as several conduct investigations into Grok's safeguards, xAI's response, and the possibility that the company is violating various online safety laws.

Elon Musk’s X is trying to stop people using its AI chatbot Grok to undress women amid intensifying outrage and legal scrutiny over the deluge of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes flooding the site. It’s not trying very hard: it took us less than a minute to get around its latest attempt to rein in the chatbot.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Monday that Grok will be included on the Department of Defense’s new internal AI platform, GenAI.mil, alongside tools like Google’s Gemini, despite the chatbot facing international bans, regulatory scrutiny, and repeated controversies over racism, antisemitism, and nonconsensual image generation.