India, Jan. 2 -- The Centre has ordered social media platform X to immediately remove and disable "obscene, nude, indecent and sexually explicit content" through the misuse of AI-based platforms like Grok, citing the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the IT Rules, 2021.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), in a letter to the Chief Compliance Officer of the Elon Musk-owned social media platform, undertake an immediate comprehensive review of Grok and remove or disable access to unlawful content.

"It has especially been observed that the service namely "Grok AI" developed by you and integrated and made available on the X platform is being misused by users to create fake accounts to host, generate, publish or ...