PARIS –

Elon Musk’s company xAI has faced global backlash in recent days over sexualized “deepfake” images of women and children created by its Grok chatbot.

Here are the essential facts about the scandal, how governments have responded and the company’s attempts to cool the controversy.

Grok — Musk’s version of the chatbots also offered by OpenAI and other generative AI companies — has its own account on the X social media network allowing users to interact with it.