{"id":85515,"date":"2026-01-12T14:44:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/elon-musks-x-investigated-by-ofcom-over-grok-ai-sexual-deepfakes-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:44:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:44:32","slug":"elon-musks-x-investigated-by-ofcom-over-grok-ai-sexual-deepfakes-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/elon-musks-x-investigated-by-ofcom-over-grok-ai-sexual-deepfakes-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s X investigated by Ofcom over Grok AI sexual deepfakes | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ofcom has launched an investigation into Elon Musk&#8217;s X over concerns its AI tool Grok is being used to create <!--more--> sexualised images.<\/p>\n<p>The UK watchdog said in a statement that there had been &#8220;deeply concerning reports&#8221; of the chatbot being used to create and share undressed images of people, as well as &#8220;sexualised images of children&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>X referred the BBC to a statement posted by its Safety account in January, which said: &#8220;Anyone using or prompting Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk later said the UK government wanted &#8220;any excuse for censorship&#8221; in response to a post questioning why other AI platforms were not being looked at.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#X #Grok #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ofcom has launched an investigation into Elon Musk&#8217;s X over concerns its AI tool Grok is being used to create<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}