India, Jan. 6 -- The government on Tuesday gave a 48 hour extension to X Corp to submit a detailed compliance report on action taken to prevent its Grok AI chatbot from generating obscene and sexually explicit content, a senior official told HT.

On Friday, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) had given X (formerly Twitter) 72 hours to respond to the misuse of Grok AI on its platform.

The Elon Musk-owned microblogging platform now has time till January 7, 5pm to respond to MeitY's letter.

The ministry had, on January 2, written a strongly worded letter to X flagging what it called serious failures in preventing obscene and sexually explicit content generated using its AI tool Grok, and warning that continued no...