Turkey prosecutors ban Grok access after insults against government
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A Turkish court has ordered a nationwide block on access to Elon Musk’s X platform on Wednesday, after its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok published content that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Prophet Muhammad, and Turkey’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, perceived as offensive. An investigation started by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office claimed Grok generated responses that insulted the country’s top officials. The AI assistant, developed by Musk’s xAI and integrated into the X platform, was accused of disseminating vulgar and inappropriate language in response to Turkish-language prompts. Turkey prosecutors ban Grok access after insults against government According to a statement released Wednesday by the prosecutors’ office, the investigation was launched after Grok’s posts insulted President Erdogan, his mother, the Prophet Muhammad, and Atatürk. The office then filed for an access ban with a criminal court, which approved the request. The order was forwarded to Turkey’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) to enforce the block through local internet providers. Though the BTK is expected to implement the ban imminently, Grok was still accessible in Turkey at the time of this publication. It is the first time an AI program is being treated as a party in a criminal investigation. Gonenc Gurkaynak, one of X’s lawyers in Turkey, was astonished at the prosecution’s case. “I never imagined that one day Grok might face direct criminal prosecution and have to defend itself,” he wrote on his official X account. The AI chatbot’s prompt and response function was suspended on Tuesday for producing “problematic” posts of antisemitic tropes, and even praising Adolf Hitler. Just weeks ago, Musk admitted that there were flaws in Grok’s training data and promised improvements, noting that the model had been exposed to “far too much garbage” during development. In response to the Turkish government’s complaints, X promised…
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