Grok access has been cut off for users in Indonesia and Malaysia following concerns that the xAI chatbot's safeguards were ineffective. Both countries issued temporary suspensions intended to remain in effect until xAI implements safeguards that comply with regulators' demands.

"The content which has circulated on X is vile," the UK technology secretary Liz Kendall said Monday.

The British communications agency said it “urgently made contact with X” to determine its compliance with the country’s Online Safety Act over sexual imagery, and a ban is on the table

A growing number of countries are blocking access to Grok, the AI chatbot created by Elon Musk and built into X. But could the UK do the same? Indonesia became the first to do so on Saturday under a law that platforms must ensure they do not contain or share illegal material.

A Welsh presenter has said quicker action by the UK government could have prevented further victims of deepfake sexual images created by Grok AI. Explicit images of Jess Davies were created using the chatbot and shared without her consent when the software was freely available to over half a billion users on X.

The UK is making it a crime to generate or request AI-made explicit content from this week, following the ban on sharing deepfakes. The region's communications regulator, Ofcom, is also looking into Grok,

The UK’s media regulator has opened a formal investigation into X under the Online Safety Act. "There have been deeply concerning reports of the Grok AI chatbot account on X being used to create and share undressed images of people — which may amount to intimate image abuse or pornography — and sexualized images of children that may amount to child sexual abuse material (CSAM),

Malaysia on Sunday temporarily blocked access to Grok, joining a growing list of countries taking action after the generative artificial intelligence chatbot sparked a global backlash by allowing users to create and publish sexualised images.