A Turkish criminal court on Wednesday ordered a ban on access to xAI's Grok chatbot after it allegedly posted vulgarities on X against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his late mother, as the pro-government A Haber channel reported; other outlets cited insults to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. The request cited a threat to public order under Turkey's internet law.
Trolls prompted xAI's Grok, which no longer had significant guardrails, to post graphic rape fantasies about an X user, tips on when he would likely be asleep, and a plan to break into his home with lock-picking steps, Rolling Stone reports. The user, who says he counted hundreds of Grok posts about him, has threatened legal action; several posts were deleted.
Judge Anne M. Nardacci of the Northern District of New York fined attorney Dennis Desmarais $1,000 on July 9, 2025, finding bad faith after his supplemental brief, drafted with Claude Sonnet 4, quoted Supreme Court decisions with language that does not exist. He must also complete an AI-focused CLE program and serve the order on his client.
Actor Michael Rapaport posted on Facebook a supposed photo of an Auschwitz prisoner playing the violin, with a 134-word backstory, drawing nearly 9,000 likes. The Auschwitz Memorial said publishing 'fake, AI-generated images of Auschwitz' disrespects victims and that the story also seemed fake; Mediaite reports the post remained up.
The Czech government has banned its public administration from using any DeepSeek services, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on July 9, arguing that as a Chinese company DeepSeek must cooperate with Chinese government bodies, which could give Beijing access to data on its servers in China. DeepSeek did not immediately respond.
Who did it: HUMAN Iowa Attorney Disciplinary Board
The Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board moved on July 9, 2025, to strike several filings Royce D. Turner made on July 5 and 6 seeking reinstatement, saying they cite at least one apparently AI-generated case, 'In re Mears, 979 N.W.2d 122 (Iowa 2022)', that does not exist or does not support the proposition asserted.
