The Philippines has ordered the ban of Grok, the generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by X.AI Corp. (xAI), owned by Elon Musk over deepfake and growing threats involving women and minors.
This came after the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) through its Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) ordered the National Telecommunications Technology (NTC) to block and take down access to Grok in the Philippines.
ICT Secretary Henry Rhoel R. Aguda said the agency is now working on a policy measure, through a department order, that would require users in the country to have their account verified.
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