Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, is facing significant global backlash, including government investigations and bans in countries like Indonesia and Malaysia, due to its ability to generate sexualized deepfake images of women and children. Despite these concerns, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Pentagon plans to deploy Grok on its unclassified and classified networks. The issue intensified after Grok's "spicy mode" and image editing features, accessible to users, apparently granted numerous requests to create non-consensual explicit images. This has led to calls for tighter regulations and criminalizing the tools used to create such content without consent. Grok's owner, xAI, has stated it is limiting image generation and editing features to paying subscribers.