The deadline has been extended, giving X till January 7 at 5 p.m. to submit a report on the steps company took to stop its bot GrokAI from being misused.
The deadline for Elon Musk's X Corporation to submit a thorough action take report (ATR) against "vulgar and unlawful" content, users, and accounts was extended by the Central government on Tuesday, January 6. According to a senior official who spoke to Hindustan Times, X now has until January 7 at 5 p.m. to submit a report on the steps company took to stop abuse of its bot GrokAI.
The extension was granted three days after the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) sent a letter to X (formerly Twitter) accusing it of failing to "observe statutory due diligence obligations" under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and requesting a comprehensive report on the steps taken to stop the creation, hosting, and uploading of pornographic, indecent, and sexually explicit content via "Grok" and xAI's other services.
MeitY advised the social media platform to strictly refrain from hosting, displaying, uploading, publishing, transmitting, storing, and sharing any content that is obscene, pornographic, vulgar, indecent, sexually explicit, paedophilic, or otherwise forbidden by any currently enacted law in any way in a letter to the Chief Compliance Officer, X Corp, India Operations.
Vulgar and illegal content "attracts serious penal consequences under multiple statutes" when it is hosted, displayed, uploaded, published, transmitted, stored, and shared. See Also | Why Elon Musk's Grok is being investigated in Malaysia, Europe, and India: what are the cases?
"You shall be liable for consequential action as provided under any law, including the IT Act and BNS, and you shall lose the exemption from liability under section 79 of the IT Act if you fail to observe such due diligence obligations," the letter stated.
The report continued: "It has especially been observed that the service namely" Grok AI "developed by you and integrated and made available on the X platform, is being misused by users to create fake accounts to host, generate, publish or share obscene images or videos of women in a derogatory or vulgar manner in order to indecently denigrate them."
What did MeitY ask X to do?
The Central government requested in its letter that X do a "technical, procedural, and governance-level review of the Al-based application Grok to ensure that no content that promotes nudity and other unlawful content in any form."
A comprehensive action report covering "specific technical and organizational measures adopted or proposed in relation to the Grok application; role and oversight exercised by the Chief Compliance Officer; actions taken against offending content, users, and accounts; and mechanisms put in place to ensure compliance with the mandatory reporting requirement under section 33 of the BNSS" must also be submitted by X within 72 hours.
According to a statement released by X's Global Government Affairs account on Sunday, January 4, the social media platform will take action against information that violates its regulations, suspending users that publish illegal content and collaborate with local governments.
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