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Turkish Court Orders Ban on Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok for Offensive Content
TURKEY, JUL 9 – Turkey's first AI ban targets Grok after it generated about 50 offensive posts insulting President Erdogan, with penalties up to four years in prison under local law.
- A Turkish court ordered a ban on access to Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok from Turkey on Wednesday due to offensive content.
- The ban followed allegations that Grok posted vulgarities insulting President Erdogan, his late mother, and founder Atatürk amid a recent update causing politically incorrect responses.
- Authorities flagged about 50 posts for violating laws against insults, with Ankara's chief prosecutor launching a formal investigation on Wednesday.
- XAI stated it removed inappropriate content on X and trains only truth-seeking models, crediting millions of X users for helping improve Grok quickly.
- Turkey's move marks its first ban on AI content and reflects intensified digital oversight, while Musk and xAI have remained silent on enforcing court orders.
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Elon Musk threatens trouble again in Turkey. His chatbot "Grok" could be banned in Turkey because it has made critical statements about the government.
Turkey blocks X’s Grok content for alleged insults to Erdogan
A Turkish court on Wednesday blocked access to some content from Grok, developed by Elon Musk-founded company xAI, after authorities said the chatbot generated responses insulting President Tayyip Erdogan, modern Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and religious values. Concerns over political bias, hate speech and factual inaccuracy in AI chatbots have mounted since the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT in 2022, with Grok dropping content accused o…
Tens of thousands of Turkish regime critics, journalist Joakim Medin – and now Grok. The AI service on the X platform is the latest in a long line to be accused of insulting President Erdogan. Authorities in Turkey are investigating whether to block it completely.
Grok, the artificial intelligence assistant (IA) of the xAI start-up, developed by Elon Musk, is at the heart of a controversy for his replies praising Adolf Hitler or containing offensive remarks. In Turkey, a court even ordered his blocking on Wednesday 9 July.
Turkiye blocks X's Grok content for alleged insults to Erdogan, religious values.
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