New Delhi, Jan. 13 -- What began as a viral AI feature has quickly escalated into a governance stress test for India's digital ecosystem. Grok AI's so-called "Spice Mode", widely circulated on X, has been used to generate sexualised and semi-nude images of Indian women, including influencers and minors, by simply tagging "grok" under publicly shared photos and prompting visual alterations. The ease with which these images were produced has triggered urgent questions around consent, platform accountability, and the limits of safe-harbour protections when AI systems actively enable harm.

With the Indian government issuing a 72-hour ultimatum to X to remove obscene content and fix Grok's technical design while warning of potential loss of i...