The United Kingdom plans to bring into force a law that criminalizes the creation of non-consensual sexualized images, including through Grok, the chatbot within Elon Musk’s X application, following the app’s deepfake scandal of the last few weeks.

Malaysia and Indonesia blocked access to Grok on Monday after the chatbot’s image tools were used to create nonconsensual sexualized “deepfakes” of women and minors. Regulators, child-safety advocates and foreign governments are pressing Elon Musk’s xAI and X over safeguards,

A Welsh presenter has said quicker action by the UK government could have prevented further victims of deepfake sexual images created by Grok AI. Explicit images of Jess Davies were created using the chatbot and shared without her consent when the software was freely available to over half a billion users on X.

On Monday, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he plans to integrate Elon Musk’s AI tool, Grok, into Pentagon networks later this month. During remarks at the SpaceX headquarters in Texas reported by The Guardian,

On Elon Musk’s social media platform X, the Grok AI image generation reply bot has been changed to be for paying customers only and appears to be restricted from making sexualized deepfakes after recent outcry.

X is allowing only “verified” users to create images with Grok. Experts say it represents the “monetization of abuse”—and anyone can still generate images on Grok’s app and website.

U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D-New Mexico, has joined with a two other U.S. senators to ask Apple and Google to remove the X and Grok apps from their app stories until the company address what the senators are calling “nonconsensual sexualized images of women and children” being generated by

It really could not be more clear from Google’s publicly available policies that Grok should have been banned yesterday. And yet, it remains in the Play Store. Not only that—it enjoys a T for Teen rating, one notch below the M-rated X app. Apple also still offers the Grok app on its platform, but its rules actually leave more wiggle room.

Elon Musk’s chatbot has been used to generate thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors. Apple and Google have removed other “nudify” apps—but continue to host X and Grok.