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Motion · S6M-20386 · 9 Jan 2026

Restricting Grok AI and Urgent Regulatory Action

Lodged by Pauline McNeill (Scottish Labour) Standard Motion 23 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament notes with concern reports that Grok, which is an AI tool integrated with the social media platform, X, has been used to create unlawful, non-consensual sexualised images, including criminal imagery of girls as young as 11, causing significant harm and humiliation to victims; further notes that the UK Government has described X’s decision to limit Grok’s image-editing features to paying subscribers as “insulting” to victims of misogyny and sexual violence, and that charities and experts have warned this represents the monetisation of abuse, rather than its prevention; calls on X to act immediately to remove this harmful feature; condemns what it sees as the failure to implement ethical safeguards and the placing of harmful features behind a paywall; calls on Ofcom to exercise its full powers under the Online Safety Act 2023 to investigate X and Grok, and to take enforcement action, including restricting access in the UK, if compliance is not achieved, and further calls for an urgent review into the use of AI for image manipulation and its role in facilitating gender-based abuse.

Supporters (23)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.