Skip to content Britain is now checking Elon Musk’s company X. They think the AI called Grok is making fake naked pictures of people. The government is worried. These bad pictures can spread very fast online. It is hard for websites to stop them. Kids might see these pictures. Leaders in the UK say these fake pictures are a tool for hurting people. They are not just jokes or cool content.
UK media regulator investigating Elon Musk’s X after outcry over sexualised AI images
When you watch the clip, focus on what’s being tested here: not just Grok’s behavior, but whether X is meeting its legal duty to protect UK users from illegal content. The key detail is timing, Britain says a new offence covering sexual deepfakes is coming into force this week, and it’s also looking at laws that target the tools used to create them.
People are not agreeing about this. Leaders in the UK call the fake pictures disgusting and against the law. But the company X says it is already doing things. They say they take down bad pictures and ban the accounts that post them. They also think the people who type the commands to make this stuff should be punished too.
Elon Musk sees this differently. He says the government is just trying to stop free speech. This has started a bigger argument. The argument is about where free speech stops. It is about when a website must be responsible for what people post on it.
Reuters’ video report covering Ofcom’s probe and the UK’s new deepfake offence
UK investigates Musk’s X over Grok sexual deepfakes
This is bigger than one app controversy because it could become the first major stress-test of the UK’s Online Safety rules as they’re implemented in stages. If Ofcom decides X did not do its job. They must check risks and make them smaller. This is extra important for keeping kids safe. If they fail the result could be big. It would be more than just taking pictures down. Ofcom could force big changes. This pressure could change everything. It could change how AI picture tools work in the UK. They might not be allowed to work the same way at all.
