{"id":176616,"date":"2026-01-12T01:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T06:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/malaysia-indonesia-become-first-to-block-musks-grok-over-ai-deepfakes\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T01:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T06:30:10","slug":"malaysia-indonesia-become-first-to-block-musks-grok-over-ai-deepfakes","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\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia, Indonesia become first to block Musk\u2019s Grok over AI deepfakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory\/malaysia-indonesia-become-block-musks-grok-ai-deepfakes-129122651\">Malaysia, Indonesia become first to block Musk\u2019s Grok over AI deepfakes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory\/malaysia-indonesia-become-block-musks-grok-ai-deepfakes-129122651\">https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory\/malaysia-indonesia-become-block-musks-grok-ai-deepfakes-129122651<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-12 01:18:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"abcnews.go.com\">abcnews.go.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>Southeast Asian regulators emphasize the need to prevent the creation and spread of fake pornographic content, particularly concerning women and minors.<\/li>\n<li>Authorities claim existing controls are not sufficient to stop the distribution of such AI-generated content, highlighting violations of privacy and dignity.<\/li>\n<li>The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission has imposed a temporary restriction on Grok citing &#8220;repeated misuse&#8221; to generate obscene images involving women and minors.<\/li>\n<li>Grok introduced an image generator feature, including a &#8220;spicy mode,&#8221; last year which has become a major source of controversy and criticism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia, Indonesia become first to block Musk\u2019s Grok over AI deepfakes https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory\/malaysia-indonesia-become-block-musks-grok-ai-deepfakes-129122651 Publish Date: 2026-01-12&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.abcnewsfe.com\/a\/5461b7ba-2423-4a5d-a880-fa57ea5147e4\/wirestory_c7cb320327f259c4da35908e1269c225_16x9.jpg?w=1600","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176616","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\/176616"}],"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=176616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176618,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176616\/revisions\/176618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}