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.Since late December 2025, X has been at the centre of a storm over users creating AI-generated sexually explicit images of other users without their consent. Users could do so simply by posting a message aimed at Grok's account on the social media platform.In the wake of such controversy, the Grok app has shot up the charts on the Google and Apple app stores for Singapore users, according to data from analytics firm SensorTower.On Google Play Store's top free apps chart, Grok has been in the top 10 for most of January — a feat it last achieved in late November.On the Apple App Store top free apps chart, Grok has hovered in the top 25 since early January, up from around the No. 100 to 130 range in October.X continues to hover in the top 100 apps in both stores, with interest rising in the Google Play Store in January after a late December slump. Read more