Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked access to Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok over its ability to produce sexually explicit deepfakes. Grok, a tool on Musk's X platform, allows users to generate images but has recently been used to edit images of real people to show them in revealing outfits.

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.

The scenario has changed owing to artificial intelligence, especially with regard to the creation, sharing, and manipulation of images as well as videos. Although these technological changes are very helpful,

Malaysia and Indonesia became the first countries to ban the use of the artificial intelligence chatbot Grok on the social media platform X, after numerous instances of it being used to create nonconsensual,

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.

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,