{"id":22357,"date":"2026-03-17T09:37:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/child-abuse-material-systemic-on-elon-musks-x-amid-grok-scandal-australian-online-safety-regulator-warned\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T09:37:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:37:46","slug":"child-abuse-material-systemic-on-elon-musks-x-amid-grok-scandal-australian-online-safety-regulator-warned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/child-abuse-material-systemic-on-elon-musks-x-amid-grok-scandal-australian-online-safety-regulator-warned\/","title":{"rendered":"Child abuse material \u2018systemic\u2019 on Elon Musk\u2019s X amid Grok scandal, Australian online safety regulator warned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive: <\/strong>eSafety commission pointed to Musk\u2019s promise that \u2018removing child exploitation is priority #1\u2019 in letter obtained by Guardian Australia<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2026\/mar\/17\/bowen-rba-interest-rates-decision-cost-of-living-inflation-fuel-price-shortages-petrol-jim-chalmers-economy-war-iran-anthony-albanese-ntwnfb\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Australian online safety regulator warned Elon Musk\u2019s X amid the Grok sexualised image generation scandal that it found child abuse material was \u201cparticularly systemic\u201d on X and more accessible than on \u201cany other mainstream service\u201d, correspondence obtained by Guardian Australia reveals.<\/p>\n<p>The eSafety commissioner wrote to X in January after its chatbot, Grok, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/jan\/13\/grok-x-anthony-albanese-australia-politicians-condemn-post-platform\">was used to generate sexualised images of women and children online<\/a>, which the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, described as \u201cabhorrent\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/17\/x-csam-child-abuse-material-grok-australian-online-safety-regulator-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9d1aeba56b7fd7e3ece52ae38e496eef75a46756\/1729_590_4264_3410\/master\/4264.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d33ffb2828165e939082610aa725fd3c\" title=\"Child abuse material \u2018systemic\u2019 on Elon Musk\u2019s X amid Grok scandal, Australian online safety regulator warned\" \/>Exclusive: eSafety commission pointed to Musk\u2019s promise that \u2018removing child exploitation is priority #1\u2019 in letter obtained by Guardian Australia<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>The Australian online safety regulator warned Elon Musk\u2019s X amid the Grok sexualised image generation scandal that it found child abuse material was \u201cparticularly systemic\u201d on X and more accessible than on \u201cany other mainstream service\u201d, correspondence obtained by Guardian Australia reveals.<br \/>\nThe eSafety commissioner wrote to X in January after its chatbot, Grok, was used to generate sexualised images of women and children online, which the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, described as \u201cabhorrent\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: eSafety commission pointed to Musk\u2019s promise that \u2018removing child exploitation is priority #1\u2019 in letter obtained by Guardian Australia Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Australian online safety regulator warned Elon Musk\u2019s X amid the Grok sexualised image generation &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/child-abuse-material-systemic-on-elon-musks-x-amid-grok-scandal-australian-online-safety-regulator-warned\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Child abuse material \u2018systemic\u2019 on Elon Musk\u2019s X amid Grok scandal, Australian online safety regulator warned<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22358,"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\/22357"}],"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=22357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}