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X faces formal Irish data-protection probe over Grok’s sexualized images

By Patricia Figueiredo and Sara Brandstätter ( February 17, 2026, 11:45 GMT | Insight) -- Social-media company X faces a data-protection investigation in Ireland over the use of its Grok AI chatbot to produce and publish sexualized deepfakes. The probe was announced on Tuesday by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, X’s lead supervisory authority in the EU. It will assess its compliance with the GDPR, even as debate over Grok in Europe has largely focused on potential enforcement under the EU’s Digital Services Act or AI Act.Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has opened a formal inquiry into X over the use of its Grok AI tool to generate and publish non-consensual intimate and sexualized images on the X platform, including images involving children....

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