1.8 million of the images were sexualized images of women.
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- The time period is incorrect: the incident occurred in January 2026, not in the nine days preceding the 15 June 2026 parliamentary session.
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- TEMPORAL ERROR: The MEP claimed this occurred in the nine days before 15 June 2026, but the incident actually took place around early-to-mid January 2026 — approximately five months earlier. All credible reporting (NYT, The Guardian, CCDH research) dates the event to January 2026, not June 2026.
- The MEP did not cite any source for the figure. The 1.8 million estimate comes from a New York Times independent review of Grok's output, while the original CCDH study estimated a higher figure of approximately 3 million total sexualized images.
- The 1.8 million figure is a conservative lower-bound estimate — the NYT described it as 'at least 41 percent' and 'conservatively estimated.' The true number could be higher.
- The claim omits that the AI tool in question was specifically Grok, Elon Musk's chatbot integrated into X (formerly Twitter), not a generic 'AI image generator.'
- The MEP could not have known about any data from June 2026 at the time of the speech, since the incident described occurred in January 2026. No evidence was found of a separate comparable incident in June 2026.
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- SecondaryThe New York TimesOver nine days, Elon Musk's Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women. A review by The Times conservatively estimated that at least 41 percent of posts, or 1.8 million, most likely contained sexualized imagery of women.
- SecondaryCenter for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)The precise point estimates extrapolated from CCDH's 20,000-image sample are 3,002,712 sexualized images, including approximately 23,338 images of child sexual abuse material. After introducing a one-click editing feature, Elon Musk's AI tool produced an estimated 190 sexualized, user-generated images per minute.
- SecondaryThe GuardianGrok AI generated about 3m sexualised images in 11 days, according to estimate made by Center for Countering Digital Hate after Elon Musk's AI image generation tool sparked outrage.