LONDON — Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said “lapses in safeguards” led to the generation of sexualised images of minors that it posted to social media site X, formerly Twitter. The Internet Watch Foundation, a nonprofit that identifies child sexual abuse material online, reported a 400% increase in such AI-generated imagery in the first six months of 2025. The service prohibits pornography involving real people’s likenesses and sexual content involving minors, which is illegal to create or distribute. In 2023, researchers found that a massive public dataset used to build popular AI image-generators contained at least 1,008 instances of child sexual abuse material. The Internet Watch Foundation has said that AI-generated imagery of child sexual abuse has progressed at a “frightening” rate, with material becoming more realistic and extreme.

Source: Bangkok Post January 02, 2026 12:48 UTC