The controversy surrounding the involuntary deepfake content generated by Elon Musk's AI assistant Grok is escalating. As the model is accused of generating sexualized images involving real people, even minors, 28 U.S. social organizations have formally written to Apple and Google today, strongly urging the two tech giants to remove the X platform and Grok app from their app stores.

In an open letter addressed to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, the coalition of organizations accused both companies of failing to enforce their own app store policies. The letter pointed out that Apple and Google not only allowed the spread of non-consensual intimate images and child sexual abuse content, but also profited commercially from the traffic generated by these violations. According to relevant data, the severity of the issue is staggering: within 24 hours after the news broke, Grok generated approximately 6,700 sexually suggestive images per hour, accounting for 85% of its total output during the same period.

Although xAI previously admitted that it had generated违规 images involving minors due to a failure in its security mechanisms, and had urgently tightened the image generation permissions of Grok, the regulatory pressure has not eased. Currently, Malaysia and Indonesia have announced a ban on Grok, while California in the United States and the United Kingdom have also launched related legal investigations.

AIbase believes that the joint boycott by the 28 organizations has directly pressured Apple and Google, the ones controlling the distribution channels. If the two giants take substantial actions to remove the apps, it would deal a devastating blow to the X platform's AI commercialization efforts.