By Pascale Davies
Publication Date: 2026-02-17 08:22:00
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The Irish Data Protection Commission said it had opened a formal investigation into X’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok over its processing of personal data and its potential to produce harmful sexualised images and videos, including of children.
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The Elon Musk company maintains its European Union offices in Ireland and can levy fines of up to 4 percent of a company’s global turnover under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Grok came under fire last year after it developed a feature called “Spicy Mode” that allowed users to cause the chatbot to “undress” images of women and pose them in bikinis, creating AI-generated deepfakes without consent or…
