Turkey blocks Grok, Musk's AI on X

The Ankara prosecutor's office has ordered the blocking of Grok, the artificial intelligence integrated into Elon Musk's X platform, after the chatbot produced content deemed offensive regarding President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The content was viewed by over 2 million users in Turkey. Local media reported this after reports in the past few hours that the Ankara prosecutor's office had opened an investigation into Grok for publishing, at the request of an anonymous user, a poem about Erdogan deemed offensive.

In recent days, Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, released an update to Grok that allowed the chatbot to produce unfiltered comments that many users considered politically incorrect. "We've significantly improved Grok.

You should notice the difference when you ask questions,” Musk said. According to Reuters on its website, in the past few hours Grok has removed some English-language content that the chatbot itself has defined as “inappropriate” after many users and associations had raised criticisms deeming the texts anti-Semitic or extremist.