Indian Government Escalates The Grok Issue

Five days after India's Ministry of Electronics issued a formal notice to X demanding a comprehensive review of Grok's safety failures, X has still not submitted the required compliance report. 

The government responded on January 6 by issuing a formal directive requiring the immediate removal of all vulgar and obscene content generated by Grok, with a new 24-hour compliance window closing January 7 at midnight.

The first notice had given X a period of 72 hours to conduct a technical review and report findings. X's non-response converted the situation from a compliance negotiation into an enforcement action. The second directive is not a request for review. It is a compliance demand backed by the threat of operational consequences.

Governments typically work in cycles measured in weeks or months. India is operating in days over here. The first notice on January 1. The follow-up directive on January 6. The compliance deadline on January 7. At this pace, if X does not demonstrate remediation, enforcement action could follow within hours rather than weeks.

The issue for X is that the problem identified by India's government is not something the company can solve in 24 hours. People are prompting for these vulgar requests under nearly every tweet now. Addressing this requires either retraining the underlying model, implementing new content filters, or restricting Grok's deployment in India entirely.