EU orders X platform to preserve all Grok AI documents amid compliance doubts

The European Commission has instructed Elon Musk’s social media platform X to retain all internal documents and data related to its AI chatbot Grok until the end of 2026.

Thomas Regnier, a spokesperson for the European Commission, emphasised that the platform must preserve its internal documents and refrain from destroying them, citing doubts about its compliance, Caliber.Az reports via foreign media.

“We need to be able to have access to them if we request it explicitly,” he said, adding that the order does not signal the start of a new formal investigation under the EU Digital Services Act (DSA).

The decision follows a scandal involving Grok’s “spicy mode,” which generates explicit images of women and children.

The UK regulator Ofcom has already launched an inquiry into the platform for potential online safety violations, while ministers in the UK and Germany have called on X to halt the distribution of intimate deepfakes.

By Jeyhun Aghazada