Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI said late on Wednesday it imposed restrictions on all users of its Grok AI chatbot that limit image editing after the service produced sexualized images that sparked concerns among global regulators.

X says it has limited Grok image tools to paid users and has added safeguards after misuse prompted growing regulatory scrutiny.

Grok faces mounting scrutiny from government officials and advocacy groups after people used the AI chatbot to create sexualized images of minors and women.

While the UK probe continues, Bonta has not made clear yet what laws he suspects X may be violating in the US. However, he emphasized that images with victims depicted in “minimal clothing” crossed a line, as well as images putting children in sexual positions.

The use of the AI tool to digitally undress women has sparked a backlash as well as intervention from the government and regulator.

Grok, the controversial AI chatbot native to Elon Musk's X, is creating an "unprecedented" number of non-consensual, lewd images on an hourly basis, according to a third-party analysis reviewed by Bloomberg. Musk's xAI introduced Grok in late 2023, but the chatbot's so-called "spicy mode" didn't debut until last August.

When Musk took over the platform, he wasn’t wrong for identifying child pornography as a problem the company needed to address. But how did he plan to prevent the dissemination of dangerous and illegal materials while also making Twitter a supposed home for free-speech absolutists?

Elon Musk's AI model Grok will no longer allow users to remove clothing from images of real people, a statement posted on X reads.