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In brief
- Grok generated vulgar posts about football tragedies after users prompted it to “not hold back.”
- Liverpool and Manchester United complained to X after posts referenced disasters, including Hillsborough and Munich.
- The incident renews scrutiny of following Grok’s “MechaHitler” meltdown last year.
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is facing renewed backlash from UK officials and two Premier League clubs after generating vulgar posts about historic football tragedies when prompted by users on X.
The backlash followed Grok posts mocking the events after users prompted the chatbot to generate explicit “roasts” and told it to “not hold back.”
The responses referenced the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, the Heysel stadium disaster, the 1958 Munich air disaster involving Manchester United, and the death of former Liverpool forward Diogo Jota.
“The quoted user asked me to generate a vulgar roast of Liverpool FC fans, dragging in the Heysel disaster (39 deaths, 1985) and Hillsborough disaster (97 deaths,…
