The move comes after the bot was found to be generating explicit images of women and children, without consent, on Elon Musk’s X.

The two Southeast Asian countries became the first in the world to ban access to Elon Musk’s Grok over the weekend after the AI chatbot was used to produce sexually explicit and non-consensual images.

Indonesian regulators temporarily blocked the bot on Saturday, with Malaysia following suit on Sunday.

Grok, which can be accessed through X, formerly Twitter, sparked global outrage after it was used to generate images of female users in sexually explicit positions and in bikinis.

Some images also involved children.