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The cybercrime unit of the prosecutor’s office is actively conducting a raid, as confirmed in an official statement, with the assistance of Europol.
Both Elon Musk, the chairman of X, and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino have been summoned to attend hearings scheduled for April. Additionally, X employees are expected to be questioned as witnesses, according to information from the Paris prosecutor’s office.
CNN has reached out to X for a statement regarding the situation.
Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau revealed that the French investigation, which originally targeted potential misuse of algorithms, has now expanded to scrutinize “Grok’s sexualized deepfakes.”
In the preceding week, the European Commission initiated an inquiry into X’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, following concerns about its capacity to produce sexually explicit images.
Scrutiny of that function came to a head late last year, when it emerged that the chatbot had produced a flood of digitally undressed images – including of women and children – at the behest of users.
The social media behemoth has since stopped all Grok users from creating images of people in revealing clothing.
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