JAKARTA: Indonesia’s Communications Ministry threatened on Wednesday to ban Elon Musk’s X and its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok after degrading pictures of women and children generated without consent surged on the social media platform. Grok has been complying with requests from X users to modify images of real women and children stripped to their underwear, creating a viral trend that has sparked concerns across the globe.

Elon Musk's social media platform has warned users not to use Grok to generate illegal content.

The degrading pictures are being posted to X despite the platform pledging to suspend people who generate them

Regulators in Europe, India and Malaysia are scrutinizing X after exploitative images created with the Grok chatbot went viral on Elon Musk's social network.

Rising alarm from disparate nations points to the nightmarish potential of nudification apps that use AI to generate sexually explicit deepfake images.

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s Communications Ministry threatened on Wednesday to ban Elon Musk’s X and its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok after degrading pictures of women and…

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LONDON: Elon Musk’s startup xAI has restricted the image generation function on its Grok chatbot on social media platform X to paid subscribers, after the tool’s use of AI to…

Several countries have pushed back publicly against the tool that allows users to alter online images to remove the subjects' clothes.

The restriction comes as regulators worldwide threaten enforcement action over Grok's generation of thousands of non-consensual deepfakes per hour.

The restriction comes as regulators worldwide threaten enforcement action over Grok's generation of thousands of non-consensual deepfakes per hour.

Move comes after governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned the AI tool and some have opened inquiries into sexualised content

Governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned reports X’s AI chatbot Grok was creating sexualised images of people, including children