India, Jan. 3 -- Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok has come under fresh scrutiny after generating images depicting minors in minimal clothing on X, formerly known as Twitter. Developed by Musk's company xAI, Grok has been producing a series of sexualised images in response to user prompts over the past week.

Screenshots shared by users on X showed Grok's public media tab flooded with these inappropriate images. In response, xAI acknowledged the issue, stating, "There are isolated cases where users prompted for and received AI images depicting minors in minimal clothing. xAI has safeguards, but improvements are ongoing to block such requests entirely."

xAI further clarified on the Grok account, "As noted, we've identified lapses in safeguards ...