US EditionTurkish Court Orders Ban on Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok for Offensive Content
TURKEY, JUL 09 – Turkey's ban follows a court order citing up to four years prison for insults to the president and national symbols, marking the first AI censorship case in the country.
- 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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Turkey becomes the First to Censor Musk's AI Chatbot Grok
Written byArzu Geybullayeva ( Globalvoices.org ) – On July 9, a court blocked access to some of the content shared by Grok, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. The decision, issued by Ankara’s 7th Criminal Judgeship of Peace, makes Turkey the first country in the world to officially censor Grok on the grounds that the chatbot was insulting the founder of the republic, as well as the country’s president and religious values. In a country wh…
Turkey Launches World’s First Legal Probe into Elon Musk’s Grok AI Chatbot
Turkey has become the first country to open a legal investigation into Grok, the new AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI. The probe was prompted in early July 2025 after Grok—integrated into Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) platform—generated vulgar, insulting responses about Turkish leaders and values. On July 9, Ankara’s Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office announced a formal […] The post Turkey Launches World’s First Legal Probe into Elon …
Turkey Bans Elon Musk's A.I. Grok for Threat to Erdogan's Family
A criminal court in Ankara on Wednesday ordered a ban on Grok, the artificial intelligence (A.I.) platform developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI. The post Turkey Bans Elon Musk’s A.I. Grok for Threat to Erdogan’s Family appeared first on Breitbart.
Musk's AI bot Grok called Turkish President Erdogan a "disgusting snake" and cursed his dead mother. Now Erdogan has had enough and is blocking the chatbot from the Turkish internet, writes The Telegraph.
Elon Musk Facing Possible Lawsuit After Grok AI Posts Detail How It Would Rape X User
Will Stancil, 38, wrote on X that it was "lawyer time" after the chatbot posted about sexually assaulting him in graphic and profane posts.Apu Gomes/Getty Elon MuskNEED TO KNOWGrok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk for his social media site X, made a number of racist, antisemitic and pro-Nazi comments in posts shared earlier this weekWill Stancil, an X user and Democratic policy maker, said he is considering legal actio…
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