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MeitY has issued a formal notice to X, citing serious lapses in statutory due diligence under the IT Act and Rules. The government is concerned about X's AI tool, Grok, generating and circulating obscene content, particularly targeting women and children. X has been directed to review Grok's framework, remove unlawful content, and take action against offending users within 72 hours.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Friday issued a formal notice to Elon Musk-owned social media platform X, to immediately remove all vulgar and unlawful content, especially generated by its AI app Grok or face action under the IT law.
Amid ongoing concerns over misuse of the platform's AI tool, Grok, the government has raised the issue of the tool generating and circulating obscene, sexually explicit and derogatory content, particularly targeting women and children, calling it a grave violation of dignity, privacy and digital safety.
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MeitY has directed the platform to immediately review the technical and governance framework of its AI tool Grok and remove all unlawful content. It has also asked the platform to take action against offending users, and submit an Action Taken Report within 72 hours.
MeitY's notice to the Chief Compliance Officer for India operations of X highlights failure to observe statutory due diligence obligations under the Information Technology Act, 2000, and the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.
"...X is hereby directed to...remove or disable access, without delay, to all content already generated or disseminated in violation of applicable laws, in strict compliance with the timelines prescribed under the IT Rules, 2021, without vitiating the evidence in any manner," the order dated January 2 said.
"It is reiterated that non-compliance with the...requirements shall be viewed seriously and may result in strict legal consequences against your platform, its responsible officers and the users on the platform who violate the law, without any further notice, under the IT Act, the IT Rules, the BNSS, the BNS and other applicable laws," the order said.
Grok replies amid criticism over content
Musk's xAI chatbot Grok said lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X, adding that improvements were being made to prevent this."There are isolated cases where users prompted for and received AI images depicting minors in minimal clothing," Grok said in a post on X. "xAI has safeguards, but improvements are ongoing to block such requests entirely."
"As noted, we've identified lapses in safeguards and are urgently fixing them—CSAM is illegal and prohibited," Grok said, referring to Child Sexual Abuse Material.
In a separate reply to a user on X on Thursday, AI chatbot Grok said most of these cases could be prevented through advanced filters and monitoring although it said "no system is 100% foolproof," adding that xAI was prioritising improvements and reviewing details shared by users.
MeitY warns social media firms
The ministry, led by Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, warned that continued non-compliance could lead to loss of legal protection under the IT Act and strict action under multiple cyber, criminal and child protection laws.Earlier on Friday, Vaishnaw said that social media firms should take responsibility for content they publish and a standing committee has already recommended a tough law to fix the accountability of platforms
This week, the government warned online platforms, mainly social media firms, of legal consequences if they fail to act on obscene, vulgar, pornographic, paedophilic and other forms of unlawful content.
"Social media should be responsible for the content they publish. Intervention is required," Vaishnaw said on Friday on the sidelines of a Meity event.
Meanwhile, Rajya Sabha member Priyanka Chaturvedi has also written to the minister seeking urgent government intervention on increasing incidents of AI apps being misused to create vulgar photos of women and post them on social media.
"The standing committee has recommended that there is a need to come up with a tough law to make social media accountable for content they publish," Vaishnaw informed.
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