Country follows Indonesia in restricting access after global outcry over X’s AI tool

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.

UK PM Keir Starmer's office says move to limit access to paying subscribers 'insulting' to victims and 'not a solution'.

Platform has restricted image creation on the Grok AI tool to paying subscribers, but victims and experts say this does not go far enough

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

Grok ha confermato il blocco in Indonesia e assicurato che sta lavorando per risolvere il problema

Ministers warn platform could be blocked after Grok AI used to create sexual images without consent

Indonesian minister says deepfakes are a 'serious violation of human rights, dignity, and security of citizens' online.

L'Indonesia ha bloccato il chatbot Grok di Elon Musk a causa del rischio di contenuti pornografici generati dall'intelligenza artificiale, div...

The move comes after governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned and some have opened inquiries into sexualized content on the app.

Sexualised images of real people generated by Grok have circulated on X in recent weeks.

Malaysia and Indonesia blocked access to Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok over the weekend due to concerns that the tool was being used to generate sexually explicit and obscene…

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, after authorities said it was…

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…

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This week, Malaysia and Indonesia have become the world’s first countries to take action against xAI’s Grok chatbot, which was found to be used to generate fake pornographic…

Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission says ban comes after failure to comply with formal notices.