{"id":984330,"date":"2026-01-09T10:50:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984330"},"modified":"2026-01-09T10:50:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:20:51","slug":"amid-grok-ai-controversy-over-obscene-images-eu-makes-big-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/09\/amid-grok-ai-controversy-over-obscene-images-eu-makes-big-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Grok AI controversy over obscene images, EU makes big move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union\u2019s executive arm on Thursday said it had directed Elon Musk\u2019s AI chatbot, Grok, to preserve all data linked to the tool after it triggered outrage for producing \u2018sexualised deepfake images\u2019 of minors. The decision allows EU authorities to seek access to records from X as they examine both the platform and the chatbot.<\/p>\n<p>Public complaints surged online following the introduction of an \u201cedit image\u201d feature on Grok. The function allowed users to modify existing images using prompts like \u201cput her in a bikini\u201d or \u201cremove her clothes\u201d, raising serious concerns about misuse and harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union\u2019s executive arm on Thursday said it had directed Elon Musk\u2019s AI chatbot, Grok, to preserve all data linked to the tool after it triggered outrage for producing \u2018sexualised deepfake images\u2019 of minors. The decision allows EU authorities to seek access to records from X as they examine both the platform and the chatbot. Public complaints surged online following the introduction of an \u201cedit image\u201d feature on Grok. The function allowed users to modify existing images using prompts like \u201cput her in a bikini\u201d or \u201cremove her clothes\u201d, raising serious concerns about misuse and harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}