January 12,2026
RED FM News Desk
Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked access to Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, amid growing concerns over its potential misuse in creating explicit images. Authorities in both Southeast Asian countries cited the risk of nonconsensual and sexual deepfakes and have called on Musk’s platform X to implement stronger safeguards to prevent abuse.
The U.K. media regulator has also launched an investigation into the platform. Grok, which was launched in 2023, has faced global scrutiny for its image-generation capabilities. An emailed request for comment from The Associated Press to Musk’s xAI account received an automated response stating, “Legacy Media Lies.”
Legacy media refers to traditional mass communication channels like newspapers, magazines, television, and radio that existed before the internet, characterized by one-way broadcasting to a large audience, in contrast to interactive new digital media.
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