(Jan 9): Elon Musk’s XAI has limited Grok’s image-generation tool to paid subscribers on the X social media platform, after the tool drew condemnation for generating undressed images of women and children. As of Friday, Grok told X users that image generation and editing are available only to paying subscribers. The standalone Grok app, which operates separately from the social network, still allows users to generate pictures without subscribing. More users capitalised on the feature to create sexualised images of women and children on X. The tool was used to generate thousands of undressed images of people per hour, many without the subject’s consent.

Source: The Edge Markets January 09, 2026 09:48 UTC