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Unnati Gusain @ Firstpost Tech · 01/14/2026 23:18 EDT

Musk claims he was unaware X chatbot Grok generated explicit images of children

Amid the ongoing Grok AI scrutiny, CEO Elon Musk claims that he was not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok. He said it does so only according to user requests.

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