{"id":985004,"date":"2026-01-13T09:07:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985004"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:40:19","slug":"uk-regulator-ofcom-probes-x-over-grok-ai-after-reports-of-sexualised-and-illegal-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/13\/uk-regulator-ofcom-probes-x-over-grok-ai-after-reports-of-sexualised-and-illegal-imagery\/","title":{"rendered":"UK regulator Ofcom probes X over Grok AI after reports of sexualised and illegal imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s Office of Communications (Ofcom) on Monday launched an investigation into X over the \u201cdeeply concerning\u201d reports of its Grok artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot generating sexualised imagery to determine if it breached the country\u2019s Online Safety Act. <\/p>\n<p>The independent media watchdog said it had urgently made contact with X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, last week. The Elon Musk-owned company was set a \u201cfirm deadline\u201d of January 9 to explain what steps it has taken to comply with its duties to protect its users in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s Office of Communications (Ofcom) on Monday launched an investigation into X over the \u201cdeeply concerning\u201d reports of its Grok artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot generating sexualised imagery to determine if it breached the country\u2019s Online Safety Act. The independent media watchdog said it had urgently made contact with X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, last week. The Elon Musk-owned company was set a \u201cfirm deadline\u201d of January 9 to explain what steps it has taken to comply with its duties to protect its users in the UK.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985004","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=985004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}