In France, the Paris prosecutor’s cybercrime unit carried out a raid today at the French offices of the social media platform X. The prosecutor said the investigation initially focused on the possible abuse of algorithms but has now widened to probe X’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok generating sexualized deepfakes. The European Commission has also been investigating X over Grok’s ability to allow users to digitally produce images of women and children undressed. A report by The New York Times and the Center for Countering Digital Hate found that in just nine days in December, Grok managed to create and then share at least 1.8 million sexualized images of women. X announced last month that it was blocking Grok from generating sexualized images of people on its platforms in certain locations.