India, Jan. 3 -- The government on Friday sent a letter to X Corp., demanding immediate action to prevent its Grok AI chatbot from generating obscene and sexually explicit content, and giving the company 72 hours to submit a detailed compliance report.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) directed X to undertake a comprehensive technical review of Grok and remove all violating content, warning that failure to comply could result in the loss of legal protections under the Information Technology (IT) Act and potential criminal prosecution.

The MeitY notice cited multiple legal violations, including sections of the IT Act dealing with obscene content, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the Indecent Representation ...