The Indonesian government recently announced that it has officially "conditionally" lifted the ban on the chatbot developed by Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, Grok. Prior to this, the platform was restricted by the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs due to being accused of generating a large amount of prohibited content.

It is reported that Indonesia's decision came after the X platform (formerly Twitter, now a subsidiary of xAI) submitted a formal response. In the response, the X platform detailed specific measures for service improvements and preventing tool misuse. Alexander Sabar, Director of Digital Space Monitoring in Indonesia, stated that the current lifting of the ban is "conditional," and the regulatory authorities will continue to monitor the situation. If violations are found again, the ban may be reinstated at any time.

Previously, several Southeast Asian countries, including Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia, imposed bans on Grok. The reason was the abuse of the AI image generation feature of the tool, leading to a large number of non-consensual, pornographic deepfake images of real women and minors appearing on social platforms. According to statistics, the number of such illegal images reached millions within a short period, triggering global public opinion pressure and regulatory investigations.

To address regulatory pressure, xAI has already taken a series of remedial measures, including restricting the image generation function of Grok to paid subscribers of the X platform. Although Elon Musk has repeatedly emphasized that any user using the tool to generate illegal content would bear corresponding consequences and denied knowledge of the specific details of the prohibited images, government scrutiny of the technical security of the tool continues.