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Indonesia and Malaysia have temporarily blocked access to xAI’s chatbot Grok over a flood of sexualized, AI-generated imagery depicting real women, minors, and violence. Indonesia’s government condemned these non-consensual deepfakes as a serious human rights violation, while India and the European Commission have also demanded action or launched inquiries. In the UK, regulator Ofcom is assessing the situation, and US Democratic senators have called for removing X from app stores. xAI responded by restricting AI image generation to paying subscribers, though the feature remains widely accessible. xAI CEO Elon Musk criticized the scrutiny, accusing governments of seeking “any excuse for censorship.”
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