--- title: European Commission opens new investigation into X's Grok description: The European Commission launched a Digital Services Act investigation into X over its Grok AI model's ability to generate sexually explicit imagery, including... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/european-commission-opens-new-investigation-into-x-s-grok-kolpethv0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: European Commission opens new investigation into X's Grok | daily.dev og:description: The European Commission launched a Digital Services Act investigation into X over its Grok AI model's ability to generate sexually explicit imagery, including... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/european-commission-opens-new-investigation-into-x-s-grok-kolpethv0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KoLpeTHv0.png og:image:alt: European Commission opens new investigation into X's Grok og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # European Commission opens new investigation into X's Grok **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 4 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The European Commission launched a Digital Services Act investigation into X over its Grok AI model's ability to generate sexually explicit imagery, including sexualized images of children. The probe examines whether X properly assessed and mitigated risks before deploying Grok's image generation features in the EU. X has since disabled the image generation tool for non-paying users and maintains zero tolerance for child sexual exploitation content. The EU can fine platforms up to 6% of annual worldwide turnover under the DSA, potentially reaching $174 million for X. This adds to existing proceedings against X regarding systemic risk assessment and follows a previous €120 million fine for ad transparency violations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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