Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot restricted the service to paid subscribers after outcry over images of undressed women and children. Critics said that was profiting from the problem.

Elon Musk's ‌startup ​xAI has put some restrictions on ‌the image generation function of its Grok chatbot on social media platform X, ​after the tool's use of AI to create and publish sexualized images sparked a widespread backlash.

Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot on Thursday started restricting the ability for non-paying users to create deepfake, sexualized images after global pushback from users and governments. Late last month, some users began tagging Grok on Musk's social media platform X with prompts such as “put her in a bikini” to generate nonconsensual images of real people on X.

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok has stopped allowing most users to generate or edit images after backlash over sexualized deepfakes

The UK government says Elon Musk's platform X limiting Grok AI image edits to paid users is "insulting" to victims of misogyny and sexual violence.

Elon Musk’s controversial Grok artificial intelligence model appears to have been restricted on one app, while remaining largely unchanged on another

The restriction comes as regulators worldwide threaten enforcement action over Grok's generation of thousands of non-consensual deepfakes per hour.

Elon Musk has said that critics of his social media site X are looking for "any excuse for censorship", amid reports that X's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok was creating non-consensual sexualised images of people,