## Grok AI: Malaysia and Indonesia block X chatbot over sexually explicit deepfakes

Authored by bbc.com

Malaysia and Indonesia block Musk's Grok over explicit deepfakes.

15 hours ago Share Save Osmond Chia , Business reporter and Silvano Hajid , BBC Indonesia Share Save.

Getty Images Grok, a tool on Musk's X platform, allows users to generate images.

Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked access to Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok over its ability to produce sexually explicit deepfakes.

Grok, a tool on Musk's X platform, allows users to generate images but has recently been used to edit images of real people to show them in revealing outfits.

The South East Asian countries said Grok could be used to produce pornographic and non-consensual images involving women and children.

The ministry has also asked Musk's X to provide a clarification on the use of Grok. »

### They Want You to “Quit Demonstrating”

Authored by motherjones.com

“People need to quit demonstrating, quit yelling at law enforcement, challenging law enforcement, and begin to get civil,” the Texas Republican told NewsNation.

And the people that are staying in their homes or doing the right thing need to be protected.”.

Rep. Roger Williams: "People need to quit demonstrating, quit yelling at law enforcement, challenging law enforcement, and begin to get civil." »

### Why Iran's brutal ayatollah will hang on until the bloody end

Authored by inews.co.uk

Iranian protesters are facing increasingly brutal repression from regime security forces as the country’s ageing dictator digs in ever harder to preserve his Islamic theocracy.

He felt the Shah’s biggest mistake was making concessions at the end of his reign as that paved the way for his ouster.

Khamenei has ruled Iran since the 1989 death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic. »

### The Xbox Developer Direct will feature a secret fourth game

Authored by videogameschronicle.com

The upcoming Xbox Developer Direct will feature a currently unannounced fourth game.

VGC can corroborate this and understands that the fourth game is a smaller-scale original game from one of Xbox Game Studios’ first-party developers.

The Xbox Developer Direct will also include “the first in-depth look” at Beast of Reincarnation, the new game from Game Freak. »

### Woman shot dead in head as body bags show emerging picture of Iranian crackdown

Authored by news.sky.com

Some have been filtered out via Starlink, but Iranian state TV has footage from the same location.

All show a multitude of body bags, some lined up on the floor or on mortuary trolleys, others in long rows outside as relatives search for loved ones.

It films a screen inside the forensics centre which identifies the dead through a long list of photos, as a loudspeaker calls out their names and asks relatives to collect the body. »

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