New Delhi, 04 January (H.S.): Elon Musk-owned social media platform X announced on Sunday a robust crackdown on illegal content, pledging to excise offending material, impose permanent account suspensions, and collaborate with local authorities, including law enforcement.

This firm stance emerged hours after X warned that users leveraging its AI chatbot Grok to generate unlawful content would incur identical repercussions as direct uploaders.

Platform owner Musk reinforced the message on X, declaring, Anyone using Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content, in reply to concerns over inappropriate images.

X's Global Government Affairs account echoed this policy, specifying actions against illicit posts—including Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)—through content removal, permanent bans, and governmental partnerships.

The measures align with X's rules permitting consensually produced adult content if properly labeled and not prominently displayed.

The declarations follow a January 2 directive from India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), which identified vulgar, obscene, and unlawful uploads—particularly Grok-generated fakes denigrating women—and mandated immediate removal plus a detailed action-taken report within 72 hours.

Non-compliance risks severe penalties under the IT Act, IT Rules, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, amid prior advisories like the December 29 alert on platform lapses.

Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi's letter to Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw further spotlighted Grok's misuse for derogatory imagery.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar