backBrazil’s Institute for Consumer Protection (Idec) has formally requested action from the Intersectoral Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Children and Adolescents in the Digital Environment regarding Grok, a generative artificial intelligence tool integrated into the platform X. The Committee brings together representatives from the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship, the Presidency’s Social Communication Secretariat, and the National Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents. According to Idec, there are indications of violations of fundamental rights, with particularly serious implications for children, adolescents, and women.
Idec argues that the tool has been used to generate and disseminate non-consensual sexualised images, including manipulated erotic or pornographic content involving real individuals and minors, without adequate safeguards. In the organisation’s view, this constitutes a serious defect in the provision of the service under Brazil’s Consumer Protection Code, as well as potential breaches of the General Data Protection Law (LGPD), the Internet Civil Framework (Marco Civil da Internet), and the Statute of the Child and the Adolescent.
The institute also notes that the matter has already prompted responses from foreign authorities and maintains that it should be addressed within broader discussions on national policy for the protection of children and adolescents in the digital environment, as well as in the ongoing debate on the regulation of artificial intelligence under Bill No. 2,338/2023.
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