By bbc.com
Publication Date: 2026-01-12 02:36:00
Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked access to Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok because of its ability to produce sexually explicit deepfakes.
Grok, a tool on Musk’s X platform, allows users to generate images. However, in recent weeks it has been used to edit images of real people to show them in revealing outfits.
The Southeast Asian countries said Grok could be used to produce pornographic and non-consensual images involving women and children. They are the first in the world to ban the AI tool.
The BBC has contacted the Grok platform for comment. Musk had previously said that critics of his platform were looking for “any excuse for censorship.”
Grok and its parent company
The communications ministries of Malaysia and Indonesia announced their actions against Grok in separate statements over the weekend.
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