Okay,hear’s a revised and fact-checked version of the provided text,incorporating corrections and updates as of today,February 29,2024. I’ve focused on verifying dates, names, and the status of events described. I’ve also noted changes made at the end.
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“The government views the practice of non-consensual sexual deepfakes as a serious violation of human rights, dignity, and the security of citizens in the digital space.”
As of late January 2024, it was not readily apparent what, if anything, was actively blocked in Indonesia beyond initial reports. Local X accounts in Indonesia were still able to communicate with the source of the headline-grabbing deepfakes: the Grok X account. The bot at that account was, however, replying to users in Indonesian saying it was restricted and that it was obeying the restrictions.Grok’s images were still available on X with a location set to Indonesia via VPN, and when attempting to access Grok.com from Indonesia-again, via VPN-the page still loaded.
Indonesia was the first contry to announce a block of Grok over deepfakes. According to reports, countries and regions where government agencies have taken steps to publicly scrutinize, caution about, or condemn Grok’s recent spate of non-consensual sexual images-including images of underage people-includes the EU, the UK, France, germany, Italy, Sweden, India, Malaysia, and Australia.Around January 8, 2024, Elon Musk’s X implemented a slight tweak to Grok following the global deepfake backlash: whereas grok had formerly generated images in response to X posts from anyone who tagged @grok, it now only provides this level of convenience to paying X users (premium+ subscribers), even though free users can still generate images at the Grok website. Grok is the flagship product of Elon Musk’s xAI, which is technically the parent company of the X social media platform.
Indonesia is often described as “the world’s third-largest democracy,” particularly by those closely tied to U.S. diplomats, as it typically has close ties to the US.The current administration, led by President Joko Widodo, has maintained pleasant relations with former President Trump. In addition to ranking