{"id":992367,"date":"2026-02-16T07:45:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992367"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:30:08","slug":"elon-musks-ai-chatbot-grok-gains-us-market-share-amid-sexualised-images-backlash-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/16\/elon-musks-ai-chatbot-grok-gains-us-market-share-amid-sexualised-images-backlash-data-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s AI chatbot Grok gains US market share amid sexualised images backlash, data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grok, Elon Musk&#8217;s AI chatbot, has been gaining ground in the US over the past months, data showed, even as it draws global censure and regulatory scrutiny after being used to generate a wave of non-consensual sexualized images of women and minors. <\/p>\n<p>US market share of the tool rose to 17.8% last month from 14% in December, and 1.9% in January 2025, according to data from \u200cresearch firm \u2060Apptopia. <\/p>\n<p>The increase \u2060bodes well for money-losing xAI, the Musk-owned startup behind Grok, which was launched about three years ago and has been spending aggressively to scale the infrastructure needed to stay competitive in Silicon Valley&#8217;s artificial intelligence race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grok, Elon Musk&#8217;s AI chatbot, has been gaining ground in the US over the past months, data showed, even as it draws global censure and regulatory scrutiny after being used to generate a wave of non-consensual sexualized images of women and minors. US market share of the tool rose to 17.8% last month from 14% in December, and 1.9% in January 2025, according to data from \u200cresearch firm \u2060Apptopia. The increase \u2060bodes well for money-losing xAI, the Musk-owned startup behind Grok, which was launched about three years ago and has been spending aggressively to scale the infrastructure needed to stay [&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-992367","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\/992367","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=992367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}