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As of 11 January 2026, Grok, the AI chatbot developed by social media platform X (formerly Twitter), has been temporarily blocked in Malaysia after users began abusing it to generate sexually explicit images of real people. Many of these pictures were created without consent, with some even involving minors.
This comes just one day after Indonesia did exactly the same thing, making the two Southeast Asian neighbours the first countries in the world to formally pull the plug on the controversial bot.
Zero safeguards in place
According to the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), Grok has been repeatedly misused “to generate obscene, sexually explicit, indecent, grossly offensive, and non-consensual manipulated images, including content…