Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked access to Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok over its misuse to generate explicit images.

In response to slow movement from X's teams, countries have begun tamping down access to xAI's bot and standalone app, as several conduct investigations into Grok's safeguards, xAI's response, and the possibility that the company is violating various online safety laws.

The launch of an AI image editing feature on xAI’s Grok has caused chaos on X after it was used to generate a flood of non-consensual sexualized deepfakes. As Hayden Field wrote, “screenshots show Grok complying with requests to put real women in lingerie and make them spread their legs, and to put small children in bikinis.”

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.

Grok-generated nonconsensual images are flooding Elon Musk’s X, triggering international investigations and legal pressure.

The UK is bringing a law into force that makes creating non-consensual intimate deepfake images, like the ones that have proliferated on X because of the Grok AI chatbot, a criminal offense, as reported by the BBC.

Illinois lawmakers are considering ways to regulate AI technology after X's AI Grok was used to manipulate images of real women and children without their consent.

Britain’s media regulator Ofcom launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk’s X on Monday to determine whether the social media platform has complied with its duties to protect U.K. users from illegal content,