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Musk's X faces French probe after Grok produces sexually explicit deepfakes

By Matthew Newman ( January 2, 2026, 21:38 GMT | Insight) -- Elon Musk’s X faces an investigation by Paris prosecutors after its AI chatbot Grok generated sexually explicit deepfakes of minors, as pressure builds on the social media platform to comply with EU content-moderation rules. Grok said in a statement on X that these are “isolated cases where users prompted for and received AI images depicting minors in minimal clothing.”Elon Musk’s X faces an investigation by Paris prosecutors after its AI chatbot Grok generated sexually explicit deepfakes of minors, as pressure builds on the social media platform to comply with EU content-moderation rules....

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