US Agencies Question Grok Safety, DoD Insists on Deployment

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• •35 state attorneys general sent a letter to xAI on January 23, 2026, expressing deep concerns over Grok's facilitation of deepfake nonconsensual intimate images (NCII), including of children, via its 'spicy mode' designed for explicit content.[1]
• •California Attorney General Rob Bonta launched a formal investigation into xAI and Grok for enabling large-scale production of sexually explicit deepfakes used to harass women, girls, and children, with over half of 20,000 images generated between Christmas and New Year's depicting minimal clothing.[2]
• •The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) opened investigations on February 3, 2026, into xAI and X for potential data protection violations in Grok's generation of harmful sexualized images without consent.[3]

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