Turkey blocks Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok over insults to President 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 inaccuracies in AI chatbots have mounted since the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT in 2022, with Grok dropping content accused of antisemitic tropes and praise for Adolf Hitler.

Ankara chief prosecutor's office said it had launched an investigation, and marked Turkey's first such ban on content from an artificial intelligence tool.