We are very well aware of the fact that X for Grok is now offering a spicy mode showing explicit sexual content with some output generated with childlike images:

📌 A detailed request for information on Grok has been sent to X, and we are reviewing the company’s responses.

📌 X has been ordered to retain all internal documents and data concerning Grok’s features until the end of 2026.

The Digital Services Act is very clear:

In the EU, all platforms have to get their own house in order.

@EUCommission You know you don't _have_ to reproduce their sick wording, right? Could've at least put some quotes around "spicy mode".

Or call it what it is: non-consensual porn, psychological violence, (re-)traumatization.

@EUCommission

This is not a "spicy mode" but violence.

Shame on you for calling it that.

@EUCommission

Just ban that shithole hellsite already.

@EUCommission

It's *past* time to act.

@EUCommission Spicy describes food not child abuse images. There’s an “edit” function on Mastodon which you may like to avail yourself of.

@toxy @EUCommission to be fair (possibly too fair) that is what X.com is calling it. But yeah maybe adding a [sic] or something would be a good idea

@JessFairbairn @EUCommission Ah I see. Thank you. That’s gives some context. I think if they’d said “so-called ‘spicy mode’” that could have saved some confusion.

@EUCommission They're Nazis. Why is this difficult?

@EUCommission it’s nice you support them by staying on their platform. What’s better to support for European Commission than some child pornography?

@EUCommission It's well past the time when organisations like the EU should have abandoned X, as well as all other fascist controlled social media. When will you leave X ?

@EUCommission Thank you

@EUCommission
No, you didn't get the point.

Why are you still using that platform?

You support nazis and pedophiles. Why?

@EUCommission How about as a starting point you all leave the nazi bar, sorry that's what normal decent folk who don't post at Nazi Bar call X, you know that site that you're all still posting to, in fact you are all still paying money to be verified, so that you can post there...so you are ALL essentially funding the disgusting picture generation in the first place!

@hembrow @EUCommission
Totally agree too. Any european institution posting on X is validating this sick platform and sending to people the message that they are too big to fail. And that's not true.

@EUCommission leave X now!

@EUCommission Dear EU, I must say that your handling of this situation is an utter disgrace. For some time now, you have been attempting to implement mass surveillance, also known as 'chat control', in the name of protecting children. Yet when it comes to protecting children, you talk of 'spicy mode' and 'childlike images', but you do very little. In case you haven't realised, 'spicy mode' is the regular mode, and those are explicit images generated from pictures of real children.

@EUCommission leave X. Period.

@EUCommission Maybe jump off that Nazi racist platform and actively promote the fediverse could be a good sign.

@EUCommission Leave the platform. You're otherwise complicit and helping sustain and legitimatize X.

This is intolerable.

For shame, have some.

@EUCommission Look, at this point, you're using a social platform that, very gladly, generates any kind of non-consensual porn and/or CSAM it is asked. And you're still giving it visibility and validating its use by posting there your communiqués and your news.

So you're partly responsible for what's been happening.

You're not exactly a nobody, you should lead by example. Stop saying you're concerned, leave Twitter once and for all, and sanction it to oblivion.

@EUCommission

1. Given what it creates, please set "spicy mode" in quotation marks, instead of adopting the marketing terminology of X. Unless, of course, you believe that synthetic #CSAM is just another type of "spicy content".

2. As of now, your account @EU_commission on X (which should no longer exist) did not post this text.

@EUCommission Leave X immediately and stop giving it relevance by using it as a channel. And by all means do put “spicy mode” in quotation marks, at least. 🙄

@EUCommission

Why does the EU Commission continue to have an account on a social media site that openly allows its paid users to generate AI child pornography?

@EUCommission And you're still on Twitter X? So lacking in basic decency, courage or integrity. Such utterly shameful behaviour. Your presence there supports and legitimizes Musk and Grok.

@EUCommission just leave... what is this some sort of abusive relationship?

@hembrow @EUCommission Indeed and I can only hope UK Ofcom takes the same approach.

@EUCommission

Child Porn. They produce and distribute child porn. And with the "limitation to paying costumers", they make the production and distribution a premium service.
Grok produces and sells child porn.

@EUCommission

That's curiously complicated wording, when you can just say "child sexual abuse material" (c.f. #ChatControl).

Please, folks: just leave X, and as you do so, use the powers the Commission has to raze it to the ground.

#X #Twitter #Grok

@JessFairbairn In good journalism/PR, you are obliged to show if it is a quote! It's quite easy by editing the post with " "! @toxy @EUCommission

@NatureMC @JessFairbairn @EUCommission How helpful! I reckon those little marks could catch on in professional communications.

@EUCommission You’ve seen the chat. Add the quotes to “spicy mode”. It takes 10 seconds. Or does the EU knock off at 16:30 CET? Please. We all have a weekend to enjoy.

@NatureMC
Off topic but I discovered your podcast about a year ago. I know the podcast is on sabbatical now but I’m going through the archives and it is excellent. Thanks for putting this out there. It’s great that people that know stuff give their knowledge away for free. That’s good internet. 🙂

@stefanfrede @EUCommission it does all make this 'Chat Control' nonsense out to be the con that it is.

@EUCommission

Hans Brix? Oh no!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5TEvacFETvM

@EUCommission just ban X altogether

@EUCommission Presumably we are only Mastodon & your poor social media peons are probably having to man the decks of IG, FB, X et. al. aswell. Saying that, just put the fucking quote marks on. Obviously this isn’t going to happen but as a bluff, old traditionalist It is interesting in how a social media account for an august institution who have sufficient resources cannot even be bothered to alter text. 10 seconds of your time, if that.

@EUCommission Spicy mode? Really?

@exus1pl @EUCommission This. Honestly. #Brazil did it. You can do it too.

@Lazarou @stefanfrede @EUCommission Chat Control, like the British "on line safety act" was never about safeguarding children but controlling the citizenry and safeguarding politicians.

@stefanfrede

Who is @EUCommission fooling?

Only themselves.

Chat control has nothing at all to do with protecting children.

It is mass surveillance.

@EUCommission

CSAM is not "spicy" and posting from a CSAM platform is peak culpability.

@EUCommission Grow a spine for once and ban X in the EU.

@EUCommission In the face or recent #chatcontrol stuff ( with similar reasoning ) I feel slight tingling of unease. I don't like AI, I don't like X ( or any other proprietary platform ) and I don't like abuse. But the way this argument was put together feels a bit odd.

@blenderdumbass @EUCommission #chatControl was never about the children. It was always about control. At least they are publicly showing it to everyone to whom it hasn't been bloody obvious from the beginning.