New Delhi, Jan. 6 -- Authorities in India, Europe, and Malaysia are investigating Elon Musk-owned X after its AI chatbot Grok let people create sexualised images of children and women.

The investigations were initiated after social media users, media outlets and officials flagged that Grok was unleashing images of women and children in extremely skimpy clothing on demand, a functionality X has in the past referred to as "spicy mode".

The trend, which gained global momentum after the platform introduced the edit-image feature ahead of Christmas, saw an increasing number of users asking Grok to edit their photos.

On 2 January, the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) sent a notice to X asking it to immediately remove all vulgar, obscen...