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Indonesia temporarily blocked Elon Musk's Grok chatbot connected Saturday (January 9, 2026) owed to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the archetypal state to contradict entree to the AI tool.
The determination comes aft governments and regulators from Europe to Asia person condemned and immoderate person opened inquiries into sexualised contented connected the app.
xAI, the startup down Grok, said connected Thursday (January 8, 2026) it was restricting representation procreation and editing to paying subscribers arsenic it tried to hole safeguard lapses that had allowed sexualised outputs including depictions of scantily clad children.
"The authorities views the signifier of non-consensual intersexual deepfakes arsenic a superior usurpation of quality rights, dignity, and the information of citizens successful the integer space," Communications and Digital Minister Meutya Hafid said successful a statement.
The Ministry has besides summoned X officials to sermon the matter. Mr. Musk said connected X (formerly, Twitter) that anyone utilizing Grok to marque amerciable contented would endure the aforesaid consequences arsenic if they had uploaded amerciable content.
xAI replied to Reuters' email seeking remark with what seemed to beryllium an automated response: "Legacy Media Lies". X did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
Indonesia, with the world's biggest Muslim population, has strict rules that prohibition the sharing online of content deemed obscene.
