The Trump era has seen the revival of Karl Marx’s famous line about the repetitive nature of history: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice.

A court has ordered a nationwide access ban on Grok, the AI chatbot developed by the social media platform X, after it generated offensive content targeting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Republic, and the Prophet Muhammad.

Horrifying but legal speech is extremely tough to regulate in the U.S., even if machines generate it. State governments have made a few attempts to constrain the outputs of generative AI — and found themselves facing First Amendment challenges in court.

Elon Musks’s Grok chatbot was seen on Tuesday making antisemitic statements, after the artificial intelligence tool, which is embedded in X, was updated over the weekend.. Throughout Tuesday, Grok responded to a variety of posts by echoing antisemitic tropes and claiming people with Jewish-sounding names are disproportionately linked “every damn time” to hate, radicalism, and deceitfulness.