{"id":176608,"date":"2026-01-12T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T05:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/malaysia-indonesia-become-first-to-block-musks-grok-over-ai-deepfakes-wral-com\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T01:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T06:20:14","slug":"malaysia-indonesia-become-first-to-block-musks-grok-over-ai-deepfakes-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/malaysia-indonesia-become-first-to-block-musks-grok-over-ai-deepfakes-wral-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia, Indonesia become first to block Musk\u2019s Grok over AI deepfakes :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/c7cb3-malaysia-indonesia-become-first-to-block-musk-s-grok-over-ai-deepfakes\/\">Malaysia, Indonesia become first to block Musk\u2019s Grok over AI deepfakes :: WRAL.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/c7cb3-malaysia-indonesia-become-first-to-block-musk-s-grok-over-ai-deepfakes\/\">https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/c7cb3-malaysia-indonesia-become-first-to-block-musk-s-grok-over-ai-deepfakes\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-12 00:24:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wral.com\">www.wral.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked Elon Musk\u2019s AI chatbot Grok due to its misuse in generating sexually explicit and non-consensual images.<\/li>\n<li>Authorities in the two nations expressed concerns that existing controls were ineffective in preventing the creation and spread of fake pornographic content, especially involving women and minors.<\/li>\n<li>Indonesia and Malaysia cited severe violations of human rights, dignity, and safety in the digital space from non-consensual sexual deepfakes.<\/li>\n<li>Grok, accessible via Musk&#8217;s social media platform X, was found lacking in effective safeguards to stop the generation and distribution of explicit content based on real photos of individuals.<\/li>\n<li>The Southeast Asian restrictions come amid increasing global scrutiny of Grok, particularly regarding its capability to produce manipulative adult-oriented imagery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia, Indonesia become first to block Musk\u2019s Grok over AI deepfakes :: WRAL.com https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/c7cb3-malaysia-indonesia-become-first-to-block-musk-s-grok-over-ai-deepfakes\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.wral.com\/ba925286-2d70-5fc6-bbaf-ffb6487f0035?w=1200&h=630","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176610,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176608\/revisions\/176610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}