{"id":690612,"date":"2026-01-12T07:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/690612\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:52:11","slug":"grok-ai-malaysia-and-indonesia-block-x-chatbot-over-sexually-explicit-deepfakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/690612\/","title":{"rendered":"Grok AI: Malaysia and Indonesia block X chatbot over sexually explicit deepfakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Indonesian X users who found their manipulated pictures on the platform said they felt angry that this was allowed to happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kirana Ayuningtyas, a wheelchair user who posts online about her daily experiences, found that a stranger had commented on her picture with a prompt asking for Grok to depict her wearing a bikini.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ayuningtyas said she<b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> <\/b>adjusted her privacy settings and contacted the platform to get the image removed prevent users from editing her photos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Unfortunately, none of that really worked,&#8221; she said, adding that it was hard to tell if someone out there is holding on to the images.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She asked her friends to report the accounts that published her faked images, but doing so meant even more people see the edited images, which is deeply embarrassing for her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC has contacted the Grok platform for comment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The use of Grok to generate sexualised images has been condemned by leaders worldwide, including UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who called it &#8220;disgraceful&#8221; and &#8220;disgusting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The country&#8217;s Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has also said she would back regulator Ofcom if it blocks UK access to Elon Musk&#8217;s social media site X for failing to comply with online safety laws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the UK&#8217;s Online Safety Act &#8220;includes the power to block services from being accessed in the UK, if they refuse to comply with UK law&#8221; and &#8220;if Ofcom decide to use those powers they will have our full support&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indonesian X users who found their manipulated pictures on the platform said they felt angry that this was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-690612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115881046378170450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}