AI Deepfakes and Child Safety

EU and national authorities have escalated probes into X’s Grok after reports it could generate non‑consensual sexualized and potentially child‑abusive images: Ireland’s Data Protection Commission opened a formal GDPR investigation into whether X complied with data‑protection rules for intimate images involving Europeans, Spain has ordered prosecutors to investigate AI‑generated child sexual‑abuse material on X and other platforms, and French prosecutors searched X’s Paris office and summoned Elon Musk. Regulators say X has engaged with inquiries and applied some technical limits but these are viewed as insufficient, and note that Grok—built by Musk’s xAI and producing publicly visible outputs on X—raises distinct transparency and privacy concerns under EU law.