Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon will start using Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok. The word comes days after Grok drew drew global outcry and scrutiny generating highly sexualized deepfake images.

They're not the only nations considering sanctions on xAI and X over the platform's failure to constrain the chatbot.

LONDON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Britain's media regulator launched an investigation ‌into ​Elon Musk's X on Monday over concerns its Grok ‌AI chatbot was creating sexually intimate deepfake images in violation of its duty to protect people in the UK from ​illegal content.

The U.K. investigation is just one of the actions taken by governments around the world in response to Grok’s deepfake abilities. Over the weekend, regulators in Indonesia and Malaysia announced they had temporarily blocked X in their countries, citing their laws against deepfakes and Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM).

UK regulators have opened a probe into Elon Musk’s X as backlash mounts worldwide over the thousands of sexually suggestive images generated by the artificial intelligence tool Grok on the

Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk's company xAI, as concerns grow among global authorities that it is being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images.

Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot has limited some aspects of its Imagine image generation features to paid subscribers on X, days after international uproar over the AI tool “digitally undressing” people, including children,

Elon Musk has hit back at Keir Starmer saying the UK “just want to suppress free speech” and reposting a fake AI image of the prime minister wearing a bikini.The government has threatened to ban social media site X due to the misuse of its AI tool, Grok, to generate sexualised images of children and women.