X Grok: The Ministry of Electronics and information technology (MeitY) has drawn a stern notice towards X Corp (previously twitter) referring to the failure to comply with the statutory due diligence specified within the Information technology Act, 2000 and the IT Act, 2021.
X Corp received an order to provide an action taken report (ATR) within 72 hours containing the measures taken, the position of the chief compliance officer and compliance with the current mandatory reporting regarding Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023.
The ministry sounded particular alarm upon the intricate reports that X AI service, Grok is being abused to improve and disseminate obscene, indecent, and sexually explicit content towards women.
The letter illustrates that users have abused AI features of Grok to create synthetic images and videos in a sly way, which have broken privacy and dignity. MeitY cautioned that through such actions, sexual harassment would be normalised and the laws would be eroded.
The ministry instructed X to undertake the detailed audit of the technical and governance systems of Splash to avoid the production of illegal content.
It indicated that Grok should issue tough user policies such as suspension and termination of violators. It said that all offending content must be deleted immediately without interfering with evidence.
MeitY indicated that failure to comply may result in forfeiture of safe harbour under the Section 79 of the IT Act and prompt penalties and measures through a variety of legislations, such as the BNS, the Indecent Representation of Women Act and the Protection of Children against Sexual Offences Act.
The alert was also forwarded to the major ministries, commissions, and state governments, indicating a concerted attack on AI-facilitated obscenity.
Priyanka Chaturvedi, the Shiv Sena (UBT) MP, earlier in the day had solicited the intervention of the Centre so that safeguards be incorporated into the X AI apps in the name of the safety of women.
Chaturvedi, in a letter to the Electronics and Information Technology Minister, Ashwini Vaishnav, said there has developed a new trend in the social media, particularly on X, with men creating false accounts on their accounts and making use of the X to push out the prompts to minimise their clothes and sexualise them through the Al Grok feature.
It does not only involve sharing of photos on fake accounts but they are also attacking women who share their own photos. It is intolerable and serious abuse of an Al purpose. As an active member of Standing Committee on IT & Communication, I am writing to you to request you as a minister to press strongly on X to have safeguards put in respond to AI apps on their platform to make it a safe place where women can be.
What is even worse is that Grok is encouraging this behaviour since he is listening to such demands, Chaturvedi said.
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