US EditionMalaysia suspends access to Musk's Grok AI over sexually explicit content
Malaysia's regulator temporarily blocked Grok AI due to misuse creating sexualized deepfakes of women and minors, demanding safeguards for restoration.
- On January 11, 2026, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission directed a temporary restriction on Grok , saying access will remain blocked until safeguards prevent content involving women and children.
- Grok's image tool permitted users to sexualise photos via simple text prompts, allowing non-consensual undressing of women and minors from public images.
- An AFP reporter in Kuala Lumpur found Grok unresponsive after the Jan 8 notices, and X Corp. and xAI's responses on Jan 7 and 9 were judged insufficient, the regulator said.
- A day after Indonesia's action, Malaysia joined in suspending access, while Elon Musk, owner of X, pushed back saying, `They just want to suppress free speech`, and regulators urged the public in Malaysia to report harmful content to MCMC and the Royal Malaysia Police.
- International regulators have opened probes into xAI's tools as France, UK and EU regulators investigate, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation urges US action, and Meutya Hafid called it a human rights violation.
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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.
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The governments of Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked access to the X social media platform’s ‘Grok’ AI, citing Elon Musk’s refusal to prevent it creating naked or sexually explicit deepfakes. They are the first countries to ban it. The UK far right went into meltdown last week over rumours that Keir Starmer was planning to take similar action. US politicians threatened to sanction the whole country. In reality Starmer, never one to do the dirt…
Malaysia and Indonesia became the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI company, after authorities claimed that it was being misused to generate sexually explicit and non-consensual images. These measures reflect the growing global concern about generational AI tools that can produce realistic images, sounds and texts, while existing safeguards fail to prevent their abuse.
Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked the US AI Chatbot Grok.
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Grok AI, integrated into Twitter/X and a standalone app, generates sexualized images of real people on-demand, including children. Though protecting women and children has long been a mantra for Western politicians (and pedophilia a near-daily obsession) all suddenly find themselves unable to take meaningful action against the flood of CSAM made available by the world's richest person. — Read the rest The post Malaysia and Indonesia block Grok o…
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