{"id":43199,"date":"2026-01-16T22:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/california-sends-xai-cease-and-desist-letter-saying-it-must-stop-allowing-sexualized-deepfake-images-of-minors\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T22:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:01:14","slug":"california-sends-xai-cease-and-desist-letter-saying-it-must-stop-allowing-sexualized-deepfake-images-of-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/california-sends-xai-cease-and-desist-letter-saying-it-must-stop-allowing-sexualized-deepfake-images-of-minors\/","title":{"rendered":"California sends xAI cease-and-desist letter, saying it must stop allowing sexualized deepfake images of minors"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6943375f04eda4732f2dbd01?format=jpeg\" alt=\"xAI\"\/><figcaption>\n<p>Anadolu\/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>California sent xAI a cease-and-desist letter, demanding it stop allowing deefake images of minors.<\/li>\n<li>Elon Musk&#039;s xAI faces sustained criticism over Grok&#039;s ability to create nonconsensual sexualized images.<\/li>\n<li>The letter, sent by AG Rob Bonta, threatens legal action if the deepfakes continue to be permitted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>California Attorney General Rob Bonta has demanded that xAI prevent its chatbot, Grok, from continuing to create sexualized deepfake images of children.<\/p>\n<p>Bonta&#039;s office sent a cease-and-desist letter to Elon Musk&#039;s AI startup on Friday after sustained criticism over the bot&#039;s ability to create nonconsensual sexualized images, including those of minors.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, X said that it implemented restrictions on Grok.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We have implemented technological measures to prevent the Grok account from allowing the editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis,&quot; X&#039;s safety account said in a blog post on the platform on Wednesday. &quot;This restriction applies to all users, including paid subscribers.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>However, that didn&#039;t stop the X or Grok app from creating sexualized images, Business Insider&#039;s Henry Chandonnet found on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for the CA Attorney General&#039;s office did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider. <\/p>\n<p>In an automated response to Business Insider, xAI said, &quot;Legacy Media Lies.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anadolu\/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images California sent xAI a cease-and-desist letter, demanding it stop allowing deefake images of minors. Elon Musk&#039;s xAI faces sustained criticism over Grok&#039;s ability to create nonconsensual sexualized images. The letter, sent by AG Rob Bonta, threatens legal action if the deepfakes continue to be permitted. California Attorney General Rob Bonta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}