The Grok by Elon Musk was blocked in Indonesia and Malaysia, the first nations to do so, since the artificial intelligence application has a “digital undressing” feature that has flooded the internet with images of women and minors in suggestive and obscene manipulated pictures.

The pressure has been increasing on Musk to tame Grok after a viral trend in which people have requested the AI tool to create sexually explicit deepfakes.

Grok is an app in the social media platform X of Musk, which is also Twitter.

In a statement on Saturday, the digital minister of Indonesia, Meutya Hafid, said that the ban was done to protect women, children, and the wider population against the “dangers of fake pornographic material created through artificial intelligence technology.”

On Sunday, Malaysia declared its temporary ban after the “recurring abuse of Grok to produce obscene, sexually explicit, indecent, grossly offensive, and non-consentually manipulated images, including those of women and minors.”

Indonesia and Malaysia are both Muslim-majority nations with strong laws against pornography.

Authorities in the United Kingdom, the European Union, and India have also shown concern over guardrails of Grok.

Grok parent company xAI responded by giving CNN a one-line reply when the reporter questioned it about the bans: “Legacy Media Lies.”

Earlier, Musk and xAI claimed to be addressing the problem by permanently banning accounts that violated the rule and collaborating with local governments and law enforcement. Nevertheless, images that sexualize women continued to flood But Grok with its responses to requests of users.

Grok has been perceived by various users as an exception to other mainstream AI models in that it permits and even encourages sexually explicit content and companion avatars.

The digital undressing trend has gone viral in recent times, and all this started towards the end of the previous year when most users learned that they could tag Grok on X and have it manipulate pictures.

Users have also encouraged the chatbot to make bikinis and suggestive images of people, which hurt hundreds of thousands of women across the globe.

The researchers of the European non-profit AI Forensics, exploring algorithms, analyzed more than 20,000 randomly-generated images by Grok and 50,000 requests made by users over the period between December 25 and January 1.

The scholar identified a high rate of words related to her, put/ remove, bikini, and clothing.

Out of the images created of individuals, more than half of them featured people in bare clothes, like underwear or “bikinis.”