Malaysia and Indonesia move to ban Musk’s Grok AI over sexually explicit deepfakes

Two Southeast Asian nations—Malaysia and Indonesia—have become the world’s first countries to take action against Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot and its ability to generate deepfake images. 

On Jan. 10, Indonesia announced it would temporarily restrict access to Grok. Meutya Hafid, the nation’s Communication and Digital minister, wrote in a statement that the ban was imposed to protect “women, children and the larger community” from fake pornographic content created by AI. 

Then, the next day...