{"id":984634,"date":"2026-01-12T07:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984634"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:58:18","slug":"grok-limits-image-generation-to-paid-users-not-enough-says-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/12\/grok-limits-image-generation-to-paid-users-not-enough-says-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Grok limits image generation to paid users; not enough, says India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>X has restricted the controversial image generation feature on its AI chatbot Grok to its paying subscribers globally, but the government has warned the move will not be enough to rein in obscene content, and is monitoring it, officials told ET. <\/p>\n<p>The Elon Musk-owned social media platform on Friday started stopping free users, who make up the vast majority of its subscribers, from accessing the feature that has been misused to create sexualised images of women and children without consent. <\/p>\n<p>Officials noted that allowing obscene, non-consensual content to be created by any user would keep X in violation of existing Indian laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X has restricted the controversial image generation feature on its AI chatbot Grok to its paying subscribers globally, but the government has warned the move will not be enough to rein in obscene content, and is monitoring it, officials told ET. The Elon Musk-owned social media platform on Friday started stopping free users, who make up the vast majority of its subscribers, from accessing the feature that has been misused to create sexualised images of women and children without consent. Officials noted that allowing obscene, non-consensual content to be created by any user would keep X in violation of existing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984634","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}