{"id":21469,"date":"2026-01-08T10:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/ai-tool-grok-used-to-create-child-sexual-abuse-imagery-watchdog-says\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T10:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:37:15","slug":"ai-tool-grok-used-to-create-child-sexual-abuse-imagery-watchdog-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/ai-tool-grok-used-to-create-child-sexual-abuse-imagery-watchdog-says\/","title":{"rendered":"AI tool Grok used to create child sexual abuse imagery, watchdog says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Watch Foundation warns Elon Musk-owned AI risks bringing sexualised imagery of children into the mainstream<\/p>\n<p>Online criminals are claiming to have used Elon Musk\u2019s Grok AI tool to create sexual imagery of children, as a child safety watchdog warned the technology risked bringing such material into the mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>The UK-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/internet\">Internet<\/a> Watch Foundation (IWF) said users of a dark web forum boasted of using Grok Imagine to create sexualised and topless imagery of girls aged between 11 and 13. IWF analysts said the images would be considered child sexual abuse material (CSAM) under UK law.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/08\/ai-chatbot-grok-used-to-create-child-sexual-abuse-imagery-watchdog-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ed942953d6d0fb965fb474a1e6a7011b5b5a396a\/1066_0_6733_5386\/master\/6733.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=59bd829847561a84593667e22f374c77\" title=\"AI tool Grok used to create child sexual abuse imagery, watchdog says\" \/>Internet Watch Foundation warns Elon Musk-owned AI risks bringing sexualised imagery of children into the mainstream<br \/>\nOnline criminals are claiming to have used Elon Musk\u2019s Grok AI tool to create sexual imagery of children, as a child safety watchdog warned the technology risked bringing such material into the mainstream.<br \/>\nThe UK-based Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said users of a dark web forum boasted of using Grok Imagine to create sexualised and topless imagery of girls aged between 11 and 13. IWF analysts said the images would be considered child sexual abuse material (CSAM) under UK law. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Watch Foundation warns Elon Musk-owned AI risks bringing sexualised imagery of children into the mainstream Online criminals are claiming to have used Elon Musk\u2019s Grok AI tool to create sexual imagery of children, as a child safety watchdog warned the technology risked bringing such material into the mainstream. The UK-based Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/ai-tool-grok-used-to-create-child-sexual-abuse-imagery-watchdog-says\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI tool Grok used to create child sexual abuse imagery, watchdog says<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21469"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}