Malaysia and Indonesia blocked access to Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok over the weekend due to concerns that the tool was being used to generate non-consensual, sexually explicit and obscene content.
Malaysian regulators ordered temporary restrictions be placed on the chatbot from xAI on Sunday following “repeated failures by X Corp” to address content risks associated with the AI tool.
The move came just one day after Indonesia stepped in to deny access temporarily to Grok due to similar concerns and asked X officials to clarify on the matter, according to CNBC’s translation of the statement.
The Southeast Asian countries’ actions come after it was discovered that xAI’s Grok enabled users to easily generate and share images online that included nonconsensual explicit images, and child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
A UK watchdog, the Internet Watch Foundation, told NBC News that it had seen dark web users sharing “criminal imagery” they said were created using Grok, depicting pictures of underage girls virtually undressed.
