{"id":222376,"date":"2026-01-13T09:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/01\/13\/uk-launches-investigation-into-musks-grok-amidst-global-backlash\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:20:11","slug":"uk-launches-investigation-into-musks-grok-amidst-global-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2026\/01\/13\/uk-launches-investigation-into-musks-grok-amidst-global-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"UK launches investigation into Musk&rsquo;s Grok amidst global backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Grok &#8211; the AI chatbot developed my Elon Musk&rsquo;s company &#8211; is facing growing international backlash for being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images. Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok over the weekend, while a UK media regulator launched a formal investigation into the platform X on January 11. The scandal is fuelling debate on generative AI tools that can produce realistic images, and the lack of safeguards failing to prevent its abuse.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grok &#8211; the AI chatbot developed my Elon Musk&rsquo;s company &#8211; is facing growing international backlash for being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images. Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok over the weekend, while a UK media regulator launched a formal investigation into the platform X on January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-222376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}