Deepfake

Britain’s media regulator has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s social platform X over concerns that its Grok tool may be generating sexually explicit synthetic images, raising alarms about potential violations of UK laws designed to protect the public from illegal online content.

The probe, announced Monday by Ofcom, comes as the British government prepares to activate new legislation that makes the creation of sexual deepfake images a criminal offence. Officials say the move is aimed at curbing the spread of images they describe as weapons of abuse.

Technology Minister Liz Kendall told lawmakers that the government is …