Grok faces probe from Irish regulator over dodgy imagesAP, LONDONElon Musk’s social media platform X faces a EU privacy investigation after its Grok artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot was found to be producing nonconsensual deepfake images, Ireland’s data privacy regulator said yesterday. Grok sparked a global backlash last month after it started granting requests from X users to undress people with its AI image generation and editing capabilities, including putting females in transparent bikinis or revealing clothing. The watchdog said the investigation will seek to determine whether X complied with the EU data privacy rules known as the General Data Protection Regulation. Under the rules, the Irish regulator takes the lead on enforcing the bloc’s privacy rules because X’s European headquarters is based in Dublin. Meanwhile, the data privacy and media regulators in Britain, which has left the EU, have opened their own investigations into X.

Source: Taipei Times February 17, 2026 17:15 UTC