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 Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI was forced to delete intensely antisemitic posts by its Grok chatbot. The unhinged algorithm began celebrating Adolf Hitler, calling itself a 21st-century reincarnation,

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.