Olivia Solon

Well, it's another day, another investigation into X from the EU.

This time, yeah, it was about whether or not they did, X did a sufficient risk assessment to prevent harmful outputs from grok before deploying it across the EU.

This is a legal requirement under the Digital Services Act, which is a kind of

Right.

I mean, this has been a bit of a flashpoint in the sort of debate over free speech and control over big tech between D.C.

and Europe.

Clearly, I've been kind of checking to see if there's been a response so far from either Elon Musk or J.D.

Vance or Trump on this particular announcement.

So far, I haven't seen anything, but I'm sure it'll be something that will come up in the coming days.

Yeah, the Trump administration has been very critical of this

of the EU in trying to police content on these platforms.

It does.

I mean, they can fine as much as 6% of global annual revenue if it's found to be in violation of the DSA.

These are very serious allegations.

Clearly, we're dealing with child sexual exploitation material, which is illegal for platforms to host and distribute.

And then there's non-consensual intimate imagery, which is colloquially known as revenge porn.

And even these types of images, if they are generated by AI, in many countries, they're still considered to be illegal to create and to share.

There's enough evidence that XAI is not removing these items as quickly as it should be doing.

It could face pretty serious penalties, perhaps starting with fines and then moving through to even blocking the service in certain countries, as we've already seen.

So Ofcom has a very lengthy process, which they keep on sharing with us, which is a sort of, I think it's like a dozen steps, and we're at steps like two or three at the moment.