"We’ll progress this investigation as a matter of the highest priority, while ensuring we follow due process."

The UK’s media regulator has opened a formal investigation into X under the Online Safety Act. "There have been deeply concerning reports of the Grok AI chatbot account on X being used to create and share undressed images of people — which may amount to intimate image abuse or pornography — and sexualized images of children that may amount to child sexual abuse material (CSAM),

Elon Musk has hit back at Keir Starmer saying the UK “just want to suppress free speech” and reposting a fake AI image of the prime minister wearing a bikini.The government has threatened to ban social media site X due to the misuse of its AI tool, Grok, to generate sexualised images of children and women.

The government has urged the regulator Ofcom to use all its powers – up to and including an effective ban – against X over concerns about unlawful AI images created on the site.

The Government would back regulator Ofcom if it decided to implement a ban on accessing X from the UK over sexualised deepfake images.