Grok artificial intelligence pornography image controversy escalates, Musk calls British government "fascist"

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18/01/2026
After the UK threatened to block X further for generating sexualized images of women and children using the artificial intelligence tool Grok, Musk accused the UK government of being "fascist." In response to a chart claiming that the UK is the country with the most arrests for social media posts, Musk posted, "Why is the UK government so fascist?" He also said in several other posts from a few hours ago that the UK wants to "suppress freedom of speech" and referred to the country as a "prison island." Third-party analysis shows that X has become one of the hotspots for AI-generated nude images, with as many as thousands of incidents occurring every hour earlier this week alone. The regulatory body responsible for reporting online child sexual abuse materials to law enforcement in the UK has stated that they have found "criminal" images allegedly generated by Grok appearing on the dark web.