{"id":133548,"date":"2026-01-14T18:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/133548\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:54:10","slug":"california-to-investigate-xai-over-deepfake-content-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/133548\/","title":{"rendered":"California to investigate xAI over deepfake content, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (Reuters) &#8211; California officials said they \u200bwere demanding answers from \u200cElon Musk&#8217;s xAI amid the \u200cspread of non-consensual sexual images on the platform that has prompted global \u2060scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We\u2019re demanding \u200cimmediate answers from xAI on their plan \u200dto stop the creation &amp; spread of this content,&#8221; California&#8217;s \u200battorney general, Rob Bonta, \u200cwrote on X following a separate pose from Governor Gavin Newsom calling on him &#8220;to immediately investigate \u2060the company and \u200bhold xAI \u200baccountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Musk said on Wednesday he was not aware \u200dof \u2060any &#8220;naked underage images&#8221; generated by xAI&#8217;s Grok chatbot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting \u2060by Chris Sanders and Ryan \u200cPatrick Jones; writing by \u200cSusan Heavey)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (Reuters) &#8211; California officials said they \u200bwere demanding answers from \u200cElon Musk&#8217;s xAI amid the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,68326,1611,457,2794,68325,42518],"class_list":{"0":"post-133548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-chris-sanders","12":"tag-elon-musk","13":"tag-gavin-newsom","14":"tag-rob-bonta","15":"tag-sexual-images","16":"tag-xai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}