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CX Daily : China Grapples With Its Own Epidemic of Deepfake Porn and Fraud

Published: Jan. 19, 2026 9:00 a.m. GMT+8

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Analysis: China Grapples With Its Own Epidemic of Deepfake Porn and Fraud

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) firm xAI is drawing growing scrutiny from governments around the world after its chatbot Grok let users create and share sexually explicit AI-generated pictures of children and women on his social media platform X.

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