Font Size: EU regulators have launched a new investigation into Elon Musk’s X over concerns that its AI chatbot, Grok, generates and spreads sexually explicit deepfake images, including of children. The European Commission announced the probe will examine whether X adequately assessed and mitigated the risks when rolling out Grok across the EU’s 27-member countries, including the potential dissemination of illegal content such as manipulated sexually explicit images. The investigation is being conducted under the EU’s sweeping Digital Services Act (DSA), which imposes strict requirements on online platforms to police content deemed harmful by the government. Grok has come under scrutiny for generating non-consensual sexual images of minors that would represent child sexual abuse material. Grok admitted in X posts that it had produced such imagery and acknowledged “lapses in safeguards” against it, according to the New York Post. “Sexual deepfakes of women and children are a violent, unacceptable form of degradation,” Henna Virkkunen, the European Commission executive vice president who oversees enforcement of the DSA, said in a statement Monday. “With this investigation, we will determine whether X has met its legal obligations under the DSA, or whether it treated rights of European citizens — including those of women and children – as collateral damage of its service.” (RELATED: Eurocrats Melt Down Over Trump Barring Censorship Police From US) Creating fake, sexual images of women and children is a cruel and unacceptable form of abuse. We will not accept that. pic.twitter.com/aBukxUnAeM