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.

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.

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.