{"id":365561,"date":"2026-01-12T04:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/365561\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T04:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:13:07","slug":"grok-ai-malaysia-and-indonesia-block-x-chatbot-over-sexually-explicit-deepfakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/365561\/","title":{"rendered":"Grok AI: Malaysia and Indonesia block X chatbot over sexually explicit deepfakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grok, and its parent company X, also face pressure in Britain<\/a>, after Technology Secretary Liz Kendall backed calls to block access to the social media platform for failing to follow online safety laws.<\/p>\n

Malaysia and Indonesia’s communications ministries announced their move against Grok in separate statements over the weekend.<\/p>\n

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission said on Sunday that it issued notices to X earlier in the year to seek tighter measures after it found “repeated misuse” of Grok to generate harmful content.<\/p>\n

But in its response, X failed to address the inherent risks of its platform’s design and focused mainly on the reporting process for users, the regulator said.<\/p>\n

It added that Grok will be blocked until effective safeguards are implemented and urged the public to report harmful online content.<\/p>\n

Using Grok to produce sexually explicit content is a violation of human rights, dignity and online safety, Meutya Hafid, Indonesia’s communications and digital affairs minister, said in a post on Instagram.<\/p>\n

The ministry has also asked Musk’s X to provide a clarification on the use of Grok.<\/p>\n

Indonesian authorities have cracked down on other online sources of pornographic material in recent years, with platforms such as OnlyFans and Pornhub already banned in the country.<\/p>\n

British media regulator Ofcom is expected to soon decide on what to do about Grok.<\/p>\n

The use of Grok to generate sexualised images has been condemned by leaders worldwide, including UK Prime Ministry Keir Starmer, who called it “disgraceful” and “disgusting”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grok, and its parent company X, also face pressure in Britain, after Technology Secretary Liz Kendall backed calls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-365561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}