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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Technology
Josh Taylor Technology reporter

Child abuse material ‘systemic’ on Elon Musk’s X amid Grok scandal, Australian online safety regulator warned

The Grok AI logo appears on a smartphone screen in the Apple app store in this photo illustration
Australia’s eSafety commissioner wrote to X in January after its AI chatbot Grok was used to generate sexualised images of women and children online. Photograph: Thomas Fuller/NurPhoto via Getty Images

The Australian online safety regulator warned Elon Musk’s X amid the Grok sexualised image generation scandal that it found child abuse material was “particularly systemic” on X and more accessible than on “any other mainstream service”, correspondence obtained by Guardian Australia reveals.

The eSafety commissioner wrote to X in January after its chatbot, Grok, was used to generate sexualised images of women and children online, which the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, described as “abhorrent”.

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