Indonesia Lifts Ban on Grok After New Assurances From X Corp
Indonesia lifted its ban on Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, weeks after blocking it due to the generation of sexually explicit images of real people.
The story so far
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Open questions and key claims
Grok is offering a ‘spicy mode’ showing explicit sexual content with some output generated with child-like images.
Grok admitted “lapses in safeguards” and said it’s “urgently fixing them”.
Technology minister Liz Kendall called the images ‘absolutely appalling’.
It's unlawful. We're not going to tolerate it.
The government views the practice of non-consensual sexual deepfakes as a serious violation of human rights.
Musk said anyone using Grok to make illegal content would suffer the same consequences as if they had uploaded illegal content.
Downing Street dubbed X's change to a paid service as "insulting" to victims of sexual violence.
Ashley St Clair said Grok generated sexualized photos of her as a child.
Who and where
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