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Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked access to Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok as concerns grow over its misuse in generating explicit images. Authorities in the Southeast Asian countries cited concerns about nonconsensual and sexual deepfakes. Both nations have demanded stronger safeguards from Musk's platform X to prevent abuse. The U.K. media regulator said it has launched an investigation. Grok was launched in 2023. It has faced global scrutiny for its image generator feature. An emailed request for comment by The Associated Press to Musk's xAI resulted in an automated reply from the media support address that said, “Legacy Media Lies.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s AI engine inside the Pentagon network. Hegseth made the announcement Monday at Musk's SpaceX company in South Texas as part of a push to integrate as much military data as possible into the developing technology. It follows global criticism of Grok for generating sexualized deepfake images of people without their consent. Hegseth says he would “make all appropriate data” from the military’s IT systems available for “AI exploitation.” He also said data from intelligence databases would be fed into AI systems.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian authorities said Tuesday they will take legal action…