{"id":21611,"date":"2026-01-18T11:37:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/18\/still-here-xs-grok-ai-tool-accessible-in-malaysia-despite-ban\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T11:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T10:37:43","slug":"still-here-xs-grok-ai-tool-accessible-in-malaysia-despite-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/18\/still-here-xs-grok-ai-tool-accessible-in-malaysia-despite-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Still here!\u2019: X\u2019s Grok AI tool accessible in Malaysia despite ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts warn use of VPNs makes it hard to limit access to technology that can create nonconsensual explicit images<\/p>\n<p>Days after Malaysia made global headlines by announcing it would temporarily ban Grok over its ability to generate \u201cgrossly offensive and nonconsensual manipulated images\u201d, the generative AI tool was conversing breezily with accounts registered in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStill here! That DNS block in Malaysia is pretty lightweight \u2013 easy to bypass with a VPN or DNS tweak,\u201d Grok\u2019s account on X said in response to a question from a user.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/18\/grok-x-ai-tool-still-accessible-malaysia-despite-ban-vpns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/411be0c83b7bf0b0d046d79ce00cf32dbadc7de2\/805_0_4800_3840\/master\/4800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=26ccb354ee28b76ba1470055b4d53a3e\" title=\"\u2018Still here!\u2019: X\u2019s Grok AI tool accessible in Malaysia despite ban\" \/>Experts warn use of VPNs makes it hard to limit access to technology that can create nonconsensual explicit images<br \/>\nDays after Malaysia made global headlines by announcing it would temporarily ban Grok over its ability to generate \u201cgrossly offensive and nonconsensual manipulated images\u201d, the generative AI tool was conversing breezily with accounts registered in the country.<br \/>\n\u201cStill here! That DNS block in Malaysia is pretty lightweight \u2013 easy to bypass with a VPN or DNS tweak,\u201d Grok\u2019s account on X said in response to a question from a user. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts warn use of VPNs makes it hard to limit access to technology that can create nonconsensual explicit images Days after Malaysia made global headlines by announcing it would temporarily ban Grok over its ability to generate \u201cgrossly offensive and nonconsensual manipulated images\u201d, the generative AI tool was conversing breezily with accounts registered in the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/18\/still-here-xs-grok-ai-tool-accessible-in-malaysia-despite-ban\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Still here!\u2019: X\u2019s Grok AI tool accessible in Malaysia despite ban<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21611"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}