A phone displaying images of Elon Musk and logos for his social media app X is seen next to logos for his artificial intelligence company xAI and Grok, the generative AI chatbot developed for the social media app.

Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI, as concerns grew among global authorities that it was being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images.