Indonesian officials said Saturday that they are temporarily blocking access to xAI’s chatbot Grok.
This is one of the most aggressive moves so far from government officials responding to a flood of sexualized, AI-generated imagery — often depicting real women and minors, and sometimes rel=”nofollow” href=”https://futurism.com/future-society/grok-violence-women”>showing assault and abuse — posted by Grok in response to requests from users on the social network X. (X and xAI are part of the same company.)
In rel=”nofollow” href=”https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/09/grok-image-generator-outcry-sexualised-ai-imagery”>a statement shared with the Guardian and other publications, Indonesia’s communications and digital…

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