EU Opens Investigation Into Grok — 23,000 CSAM Images in 11 Days

The EU formally opened a DSA investigation after the Center for Countering Digital Hate found Grok generated approximately 23,000 CSAM images between December 29 and January 9 — one child image every 41 seconds. Ireland launched a parallel GDPR probe. Grok now faces investigations in 7+ jurisdictions including France (where X's Paris offices were raided), California, UK, India, and Brazil. Penalty exposure: up to 6% of X's global annual revenue under the DSA. This is the most consequential AI safety enforcement action of 2026 — a blunt lesson that deploying image generation without robust guardrails creates cascading regulatory catastrophe.