Elon Musk’s Grok under India's AI sexual content lens; Google Gemini, ChatGPT may be in compliance

Mint review of usage practices and public policies across X, Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT found that safeguards on such content are not uniform across companies.As MeitY’s notice put X under scrutiny, policy and AI experts pointed to a key policy gap that appears to have placed Grok in the government’s firing line even as other platforms have so far avoided similar action.On 2 January, the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) issued a notice to X seeking details on how the platform acts against objectionable content and how it plans to address sexual content. The move followed concerns over how Grok, which is embedded within X (formerly Twitter), can be used to modify photographs into content that could be deemed sexual, obscene, or violative of a user’s privacy.Mint has seen a copy of the notice which had set time until Monday for X's reply.X has sought more time to respond to Meity's notice, meanwhile.

A senior government official late Monday confirmed that X sought a three-day extension to file its response. An executive close to X concurred, but claimed that the platform had "asked for more time, and not specifically three days".

X's spokesperson did not respond to an email sent by Mint.The executive close to X referred Mint to a post from the platform’s Safety handle. “We take action against illegal content on X, including Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), by removing it, permanently suspending accounts, and working with local governments and law enforcement as necessary,” the statement said.At the turn of the year, users began questioning how Grok, the AI platform embedded within X, could modify photographs into content that could be deemed sexual, obscene or violative of a user’s