Overview
- Indonesia and Malaysia have imposed temporary blocks on Grok, citing repeated misuse to create explicit, non‑consensual deepfakes that regulators say current safeguards failed to stop.
- UK regulator Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into X’s use of Grok under online‑safety laws, with potential fines or service restrictions if failures to protect users from illegal content are found.
- The UK government says a law criminalizing creation of non‑consensual intimate images takes effect this week and it will move to outlaw apps that facilitate such deepfakes.
- The European Commission has ordered X to preserve internal Grok documentation under the Digital Services Act after calling the generated images illegal and atrocious.
- xAI restricted some image tools to paying users, but reports say abuse paths remain through editing and the standalone app, as Spain’s child‑protection prosecutors review possible offenses and the U.S. Defense Department plans internal deployment of Grok.