Days after the Indian government sought technical details from Elon Musk-owned X related to the misuse of Grok, the social media platform has warned users of prompting the built-in AI chatbot to generate illegal content. “Anyone using or prompting Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content,” the official account of X’s safety team said in a post on Sunday, January 4. Musk reiterated this in his reply to a post saying that Grok cannot be held responsible for user prompts. During the past week, several users on X have been commenting on images of people – usually women – by tagging Grok and asking the chatbot to “put her in a bikini” or “take her dress off”. The AI chatbot, which auto-replies when tagged, complied with these user requests and generated non-consensual sexual images of both celebrities and non-celebrities, including some who appeared to be young children. “We take action against illegal content on X, including Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), by removing it, permanently suspending …