Elon Musk’s X is trying to stop people using its AI chatbot Grok to undress women amid intensifying outrage and legal scrutiny over the deluge of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes flooding the site. It’s not trying very hard: it took us less than a minute to get around its latest attempt to rein in the chatbot.

Malaysia and Indonesia blocked access to Grok on Monday after the chatbot’s image tools were used to create nonconsensual sexualized “deepfakes” of women and minors. Regulators, child-safety advocates and foreign governments are pressing Elon Musk’s xAI and X over safeguards,

The announcement comes just days after Grok drew global outcry and scrutiny for generating highly sexualized deepfake images of people without their consent.

Grok faces mounting scrutiny from government officials and advocacy groups after people used the AI chatbot to create sexualized images of minors and women.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Monday that Grok will be included on the Department of Defense’s new internal AI platform, GenAI.mil, alongside tools like Google’s Gemini, despite the chatbot facing international bans, regulatory scrutiny, and repeated controversies over racism, antisemitism, and nonconsensual image generation.

The regulator said Grok was misused to generate and disseminate harmful content. It said it issued notices to X and xAI in early January to remove the offending content, but said