Research by the CCDH estimates that roughly 3 million sexualized images of women were created by Grok and 23,000 of children. 

After enormous backlash, Musk moved Grok’s ability to produce these images from the public-facing Grok profile to premium users of the Grok chatbot. 

“Let’s be very clear, child sexual abuse material is not a premium privilege,” – EU commission spokesman Thomas Regnier

Le Monde article: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2026/01/26/eu-opens-probe-into-musk-s-grok-over-sexual-ai-deepfakes_6749819_13.html#

Center for Countering Digital Hate report on the numbers: https://counterhate.com/research/grok-floods-x-with-sexualized-images/