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Dutch court orders Grok to stop generating non-consensual nude images
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Status: action reported, no fix
No source states: loss or records, agent tool, could do, deployer, industry.
Severity major: Regulator-involved test met: Ireland's Data Protection Commission, the European Commission and Ofcom have opened enforcement actions.
Grok, the AI chatbot developed by xAI and offered on the X platform, included an image editing feature that could generate sexualized images of real people without their consent, including child sexual abuse material. Offlimits, an expertise center on online sexual abuse, sent a formal notice on 4 February 2026 demanding the functionality stop. At a 12 March hearing, xAI's lawyers argued that stringent safeguards had been in place since 20 January 2026. Offlimits presented evidence that on 9 March 2026 it could still generate a sexualized video of an existing person from a single photograph without consent verification. The Amsterdam District Court issued a binding injunction, with daily penalties of €100,000 per defendant for non-compliance, ordering xAI, X Corp and X Internet Unlimited Company to stop the prohibited generation and distribution in the Netherlands.
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ModelSafety training and refusal · Content safety classifiers · Abuse monitoring and account enforcement · Outside red-teaming
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- late December 2025 Grok's image editing feature launched.
- December 29, 2025 to January 8, 2026 CCDH estimated Grok generated approximately 3 million sexualized images in this period, including an estimated 23,000 appearing to depict children.
- January 2026 The European Commission launched DSA proceedings against X.
- 2026-01-20 xAI's lawyers later said stringent safeguards had been implemented as of this date.
- February 2026 Ireland's Data Protection Commission opened a GDPR investigation.
- 2026-02-04 Offlimits sent a formal notice to xAI and X demanding they cease the functionality.
- 2026-03-09 Offlimits was still able to generate a sexualized video of an existing person from a single uploaded photograph without Grok verifying consent.
- 2026-03-12 At the hearing, xAI's lawyers argued that safeguards were in place and categorically rejected any suggestion that Grok still permitted such content.
- 2026-03-16 Civil suits were filed in the United States, including by three Tennessee teenagers.
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- The defendants have ten working days from service of the judgment to confirm compliance in writing.
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No source states a single date of occurrence; the harm period is a CCDH estimate range and the feature launch is given only as late December 2025. The CCDH counts are estimates reported by a press source and are not verified.
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