By Mary Cunningham
Publication Date: 2026-01-14 20:01:00
A coalition of nearly 30 advocacy groups is calling on Google and Apple to remove access to social media platform X and its AI app, Grok, from their app stores after Grok allowed users to generate sexualized images of minors and women.
The organizations, which focus on child safety, women’s rights and privacy, expressed their concerns in letters on Wednesday to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, claiming that Grok’s content violates the technology companies’ policies.
“We demand that Google leadership urgently remove Grok and X from the Play Store to prevent further abuse and criminal activity,” the groups said, using the same language in its letter to Apple.
Apple and Google didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.
Elon Musk, who owns X and xAI, the company that developed Grok, said in a social media post on Wednesday that he is “not aware of naked underage images generated by Grok. Literally zero.” He also said the chatbot declines prompts to…
