Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked access to Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok after regulators said the tool was repeatedly used to generate sexually explicit, nonconsensual deepfake images. Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs ordered the restriction on Jan.

Ashley St. Clair, the mother of Elon Musk's 14th child, is suing xAI over Grok's generated sexually explicit images. St. Clair, a conservative influencer, filed the lawsuit against Musk's AI company after the platform allegedly generated and circulated sexual deepfake images of her across X.

Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk's children, alleges Grok generated and published sexual deepfake images of her without permission.

The announcement comes just days after Grok drew global outcry and scrutiny for generating highly sexualized deepfake images of people without their consent.

A coalition of women's groups, tech watchdogs and progressive activists call on Google and Apple to remove X and Grok from their app stores.

The announcement followed a global backlash over sexualized images of women and children, including bans and warnings by some governments.

Japan said on Friday that it has become the latest country to probe X over Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence service Grok, stating that the government would consider every possible option to prevent the generation of inappropriate images.

AI Minister Niamh Smyth warned officials from social media giant X not to re-introduce the image altering tool on Grok in Ireland as she claimed “concerns remain” over the artificial intelligence