New Delhi, Jan. 9 -- A group of US Senators have now asked Apple and Google to pull down the X and Grok apps from their App Stores over the chatbot's "mass generation of nonconsensual sexualized images of women and children." The chatbot, which is baked deep into the X experience, has been mired in controversy after its image editing capabilities were exploited by users to digitally remove clothes from women and children.

After growing criticism over Grok's nonconsensual image generation, the chatbot claimed earlier this week that its image editing feature was being restricted to paying users. However, the company is yet to clarify whether this is actually the case.

In any event, the three US Senators, Ron Wyden, Ed Markey, and Ben Ray ...