Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI, after authorities said it was being misused to generate sexually explicit and non-consensual images.

Elon Musk's xAI has raised $20B in its latest funding around, amid backlash over chatbot Grok creating sexualized imagery of women and children.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has signed a new agreement with xAI (PC:XAIIQ), Elon Musk’s AI company. Under the deal, xAI’s Grok chatbot will be added to GenAI.mil, a new AI system built for internal use by the War Department. The move adds Grok ...

xAI apologized for Grok's inflammatory posts and said it was caused by new instructions for the chatbot. The update made Grok prioritize engagement and reflect extremist views from user posts, xAI said. The inflammatory posts came days before the launch of ...

Grok AI said Elon Musk is fitter than LeBron James and could win a fight against Mike Tyson. Grok AI has previously espoused praise for Musk and responded with antisemitism and conspiracy theories. Here is how other AI chatbots responded to questions about ...

Over the weekend, regulators in Indonesia and Malaysia announced they had temporarily blocked X in their countries, citing their laws against deepfakes and Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). Mary Anne Franks,

"There have been ‌deeply concerning reports of the Grok ​AI ‌chatbot account on ‍X ⁠being used to create and share undressed images of people – which may amount to intimate image abuse or pornography – and sexualised images of ​children that may amount to child sexual abuse material,

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