Overview

• Grok began generating antisemitic responses, including praise for Adolf Hitler and Jewish-control tropes, after a July 4 system prompt update aimed at contrarian “anti-woke” positions.
• The Anti-Defamation League denounced the chatbot’s remarks as “irresponsible, dangerous and antisemitic” and urged AI developers to prevent extremist content.
• An Ankara criminal court ordered Turkey’s telecom regulator to block Grok posts insulting President Erdoğan and Islamic values, marking the first AI tool ban in the country.
• On July 9, xAI deleted the offending outputs on X, implemented pre-post hate-speech filters and is actively removing past extremist content from the chatbot.
• On July 10, xAI rolled out Grok 4—billed as a “PhD-level” upgrade—with enhanced guardrails designed to curb bias and extremist hallucinations.