In the US, they are asking to remove Musk’s social network from the applications because of Grok’s pornography

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Three Democratic U.S. senators have called on tech giants Apple and Google to remove social network X and its built-in chatbot Grok from American billionaire Elon Musk’s app stores over the distribution of sexually suggestive content.

Source: “European truth” with reference to Reuters

Details: In a letter published on Friday, January 9, Senators Ron Wyden, Ben Ray Lujan and Edward Markey stressed that Google and Apple “should remove these apps from the app stores until the violations of Policy X are resolved.”

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According to them, Grok began creating images of women and children in revealing clothes and in humiliating sexualized poses, which is against the platforms’ rules.

In the letter, the senators emphasized that Google prohibits content that “contributes to the exploitation or abuse of children,” and Apple prohibits “sexual or pornographic material.”

The senators noted that in the past, both tech giants have responded quickly to breaches by removing apps from their platforms.

“To turn a blind eye to X’s outrageous behavior would be to flout your moderation practices,” the document reads.

What happened before:

• Grok, the built-in AI chatbot on billionaire Elon Musk’s X social network, recently came under investigation for a “spicy mode” that allows users to create sexually suggestive images.
• On January 8, it was revealed that the European Commission had ordered X to store all internal documents and data related to its built-in artificial intelligence chatbot Grok until the end of 2026.
• They also wrote that the German Ministry of Justice plans to introduce measures in the near future that will allow the authorities to more effectively fight the use of artificial intelligence to manipulate images that violate people’s personal rights.

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