New Delhi, Jan. 22 -- The ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) received a third response from Elon Musk's social media platform, X, on January 20, marking the first time the company's legal counsel, and not its compliance team, has formally responded to the government on objectionable content generated through its AI chatbot, Grok, senior officials said. The latest reply, dated January 19 but received by the ministry on January 20, was sent by X's legal counsel, Poovayya, even as the government weighs legal action over the continued circulation of objectionable content, officials said. The official did not disclose the specifics of X's response, which was sent after the government sent queries regarding how X and Grok should be treated with respect to each other. "There is legal scrutiny from our side now," a senior official said. "AI is on the rise. MeitY doesn't want to regulate harshly. But if objectionable content continues, we will act." "We are not North Korea or China that we will right away block a social media company," said one of the officials cited above, ruling out the question of blocking X in India, like a few countries have done in the recent past. MeitY did not respond to HT's request for comment. X did not respond to HT by the time of publication. The question essentially has to do whether action shouldbe initiated against X as a platform or against Grok as an AI system.htc...