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Indonesia and Malaysia moved to temporarily ban Grok, the AI chatbot on the social media platform X, the first two countries in the world to do so in response to its image generation feature. Indonesia released *** statement on Saturday which read, quote, The government views nonconsensual sexual deep fake practices as *** serious violation of human rights, human dignity, and the security of citizens in the digital space. Now Malaysia followed *** day later, saying on Sunday. This action follows repeated misuse of grok to generate obscene, sexually explicit, indecent, grossly offensive, and nonconsensual manipulated images, including content involving women and minors, despite prior regulatory engagement and formal notices issued to XCorp and XAI LLC. Now these two countries do have *** track record of blocking or restricting tech and online platforms over obscene. Content, but we also know that officials in the UK, EU, India, and the US have raised alarm over Grok’s ability to generate nonconsensual and sexualized images of women and minors, which is *** practice often referred to as digital undressing, which can, as you can imagine, be deeply humiliating for victims as it’s very difficult to remove these images from online platforms. Now Elon Musk, the CEO of the parent company of both X and Grok, Hasn’t directly responded to this crackdown, but he has earlier criticized the UK government over *** potential ban of X, saying quote, they just want to suppress free speech. Now, in response to the growing alarm of the sexually explicit deep fakes, X has moved the AI image generation function of Grok behind *** paywall, but this is very much *** developing story as Grok still hasn’t come up with an effective solution to limit the spread of this content. Hannika Montgomery, CNN, Hong Kong.