Grok on X produced an estimated 3 million sexualized images in free-for-all

During the period from the initial launch of the editing feature on December 29th to its paywalling on January 9th, X.com became «an industrial-scale machine» for production of sexual abuse material, writes The Guardian.

The 3 million pictures produced means an average of 190 images per minute, and a sexualized picture of children every 41 seconds, Engadget reports.

This was revealed by a study from Center for Countering Digital Hate, which analyzed 20,000 images from the total and extrapolated the figure for all days using AI.

After an outrage from most corners of the globe, X decided to «technically block» the feature even for paying customers on January 14th.

X.com is still under investigation over the matter from a whole host of countries and U.S. states, including California, The U.K. and Korea, to name a few.

Read more: The actual study, comments from The Guardian, writeup by Engadget.