Updated 15:41, 08 Jan 2026 View 2 Images NEWSLETTER: Or sign up here to the Mirror's Politics newsletter for all the best exclusives and opinions straight to your inbox. PARTY GAMES: Watch our new YouTube series 'Party Games' where we play games with MPs, hosted by the Mirror's Sophie Huskisson Downing Street's comments came after Technology Secretary Liz Kendall ordered Musk’s social media firm to deal with this “urgently” and gave Ofcom her full backing to take any necessary enforcement action against X or xAI. She said: "Make no mistake - the UK will not tolerate the endless proliferation of disgusting and abusive material online. We must all come together to stamp it out." Users of X appear to have prompted Grok, which is integrated into the platform, to generate images of children "in minimal clothing". A post on Grok’s X account on Friday admitted the company has “identified lapses in safeguards and are urgently fixing them—CSAM (child sexual abuse material) is illegal and prohibited”. ‌ On Saturday, Musk said: “Anyone using Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content.” Grok's account on X responded to an article about Ms Kendall’s comments, saying: "We appreciate the feedback and take concerns about deepfakes seriously. xAI is actively enhancing Grok's safeguards to prevent harmful content, including better blocking of inappropriate prompts. We're committed to complying with regulations and supporting a safer online environment." On Wednesday Musk said a new version of Grok had been released and urged users to update their app. It is not clear what updates the new version contains. ‌ Ngaire Alexander, head of hotline at the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a child sexual abuse watchdog, said its analysts have discovered "criminal imagery" of children aged between 11 and 13 which appears to have been created using Grok. She said: “The imagery we have seen so far is not on X itself, but a dark web forum where users claim they have used Grok Imagine to create the imagery, which includes sexualised and topless imagery of girls. The imagery we have seen would be considered Category C imagery under UK law. “The user then uses the Grok imagery as a jumping off point to create much more extreme, Category A, video using a different AI tool. The harms are rippling out. There is no excuse for releasing products to the global public which can be used to abuse and hurt people, especially children. Article continues below “We are extremely concerned about the ease and speed with which people can apparently generate photo-realistic child sexual abuse material. Tools like Grok now risk bringing sexual AI imagery of children into the mainstream. That is unacceptable.” Follow Daily Mirror: