
Over the weekend of January 9th, reports surfaced that people on X (formerly Twitter) were using Grok, the platform’s AI chatbot, to generate sexually explicit images of minors and women. This prompted Senators Ben Ray Lujan, Edward Markey, and Ron Wyden to send a letter to Apple and Google, asking them to remove both the X and Grok apps from their app stores. The senators cited the creation of a large number of sexualized images of women and children without their consent as the reason for their request, and have asked for a response by January 23rd.