Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk's company xAI, as concerns grow among global authorities that it is being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images.

Defense Secretary Hegseth announced Grok AI will access Pentagon classified networks amid a global deepfake controversy.

You'd think that, as CEO and someone with a connection to one of the victims of this abuse, Elon Musk would take a firm stance against these images.

Malaysia on Sunday temporarily blocked access to Grok, joining a growing list of countries taking action after the generative artificial intelligence chatbot sparked a global backlash by allowing users to create and publish sexualised images.

Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked access to Grok, the first countries to bar the use of X's artificial intelligence service amid growing concerns over its generation of non-consensual sexually explicit content.

Grok, the chatbot created by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, has produced a flood of explicit images featuring real people in recent weeks.

Elon Musk’s Grok has been blocked by Indonesia and Malaysia, the first countries to do so after the AI tool’s “digital undressing” function flooded the internet with photos of women and minors in obscene manipulated images.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok is at the center of a storm over sexually explicit image manipulation and a new paywall that critics say solves nothing. After viral "undressing" deepfakes triggered political outrage,