UK’s ICO Starts Investigating Grok over Non-Consensual Manipulation of Images

The United Kingdom’s data protection authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), has opened a formal investigation into X (formerly Twitter) over image manipulation and the use of personal data in connection with the AI system Grok.

The probe follows widespread reports that the AI chatbot was used to generate harmful and explicit imagery.

The ICO’s action comes amid mounting international scrutiny of Grok’s image-generation capabilities, which critics say have been exploited to pro