Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk's company xAI, said it is fixing "lapses in safeguards" after social media users said it was generating sexualized photos of minors.

Grok, the chatbot of Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI, published sexualized images of children as its guardrails seem to have failed when it was prompted with vile user requests.

Anti-sexual exploitation advocates are warning that Grok, a chatbot developed by Elon Musk s company xAI, has the ability to generate nude or obscene images if users ask it to digitally alter

Grok AI faces backlash after being used to generate explicit images of women, triggering global concern as Elon Musk reacts online.

"There are isolated cases where users prompted for and received AI images depicting minors in minimal clothing," Grok's X account posted on Thursday. It also stated that the team has identified " lapses in safeguards " and is "urgently fixing them."

On X, sexual harassment and perhaps even child abuse are the latest memes.

The EU Commission must take legal action to stop the "industrialization of sexual harassment" taking place on Elon Musk's social media platform X, Germany's media minister, Wolfram Weimer, told Reuters on Tuesday.