California Attorney General Rob Bonta has launched an investigation into xAI, the company behind the artificial intelligence model Grok, over concerns that the tool is being used to generate and circulate nonconsensual sexually explicit material online.

The probe follows reports that Grok has been used to create deepfake images portraying women and girls in sexually explicit scenarios without their consent, content that has allegedly been used to harass individuals across the internet, including on the social media platform X.