British News Agency

Malaysian regulators on Sunday ordered temporary restrictions on xAI’s chatbot, citing “X Corp’s repeated failures to address content risks related to the artificial intelligence tool.”

The move came just one day after Indonesia temporarily blocked access to Grok over similar concerns and requested explanations from X officials.

The actions by Southeast Asian countries followed the discovery that xAI’s Grok enables users to easily create and share online non-consensual obscene images, including material related to child sexual abuse (CSAM).

The UK-based Internet Watch Foundation told NBC News that dark web users were sharing “criminal images” they claimed were created using Grok, depicting underage girls being virtually shown nude.

Wired also reported that Grok was used to virtually “undress” women in photos where they were wearing modest religious clothing such as hijabs, saris and nuns’ habits.