Singapore users flocking to Elon Musk’s Grok despite deepfake controversy

A transit ad in London on Jan 14, organised by corporate accountability group Eko, urging the authorities to stand up to billionaire Elon Musk and ban social media platform X and chatbot Grok. - Reuters

SINGAPORE: A wave of controversy over sexually explicit artificial intelligence (AI) deepfakes has not made billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X or chatbot Grok any less popular in Singapore.

Instead, it may have done the opposite.