Grok faces mounting scrutiny from government officials and advocacy groups after people used the AI chatbot to create sexualized images of minors and women.

While the UK probe continues, Bonta has not made clear yet what laws he suspects X may be violating in the US. However, he emphasized that images with victims depicted in “minimal clothing” crossed a line, as well as images putting children in sexual positions.

Gov. Gavin Newsom said “vile” images of women and children prompted the probe of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Wednesday that he is launching an investigation into xAI and Grok after the Grok artificial intelligence model produced sexualized images of women and children.

Elon Musk denies Grok generated explicit images of minors as governments and lawmakers escalate scrutiny of the AI tool.

A coalition of women's groups, tech watchdogs, and progressive activists is calling on Alphabet owner Google and Apple to remove the social media site X and its related chatbot, Grok, from their app stores.

California on Wednesday began investigating whether Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has been letting users turn pictures of women and girls into salacious images.The state's top attorney said Grok,

California Attorney General Rob Bonta's investigation comes amid a growing backlash to xAI and its Grok chatbot.

Grok, the controversial AI chatbot native to Elon Musk's X, is creating an "unprecedented" number of non-consensual, lewd images on an hourly basis, according to a third-party analysis reviewed by Bloomberg. Musk's xAI introduced Grok in late 2023, but the chatbot's so-called "spicy mode" didn't debut until last August.