TOKYO (Jan 16): Japan said on Friday that it has become the latest country to probe X over Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence service Grok, stating that the government would consider every possible option to prevent the generation of inappropriate images. xAI said late on Wednesday it had implemented tweaks to prevent Grok users from editing "images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis." xAI also said it had blocked users based on their location from generating images of people in revealing clothing "where it's illegal", without identifying those jurisdictions. Onoda's remarks come after Britain and Canada said they were pushing forward with their own probes of Grok. Malaysia and Indonesia have both temporarily blocked access to Grok over the creation of explicit images.

Source: The Edge Markets January 16, 2026 08:51 UTC