Liverpool and Manchester United want to get offensive posts mocking the Hillsborough and Munich disasters and Diogo Jota’s death removed from the social media platform, X
Liverpool and Manchester United are attempting to get sickening posts generated by the Grok AI tool about Hillsborough, Munich and Diogo Jota’s death removed from X.
Over the weekend it emerged that xAI’s Grok had been asked to create a number of sickening posts mocking football clubs and their fans, including tragedies that affected both Liverpool and Manchester United. There were also posts made about the passing of Jota, who died in a car accident last year.
The posts sparked outrage after being seen by disgusted fans on the social media platform, and it has now emerged that both clubs have taken action.
The Athletic report that Liverpool and United are both trying to get the offensive posts taken down by the platform.
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Both xAI, an American artificial intelligence company, and X are owned by Elon Musk, who acquired the latter back in 2022. The Tesla mogul is the richest person in the world.
The Mirror has seen the vile comments but have decided not to publish them in full given the nature of the contents.
Social media accounts asked Grok to generate a “vulgar” posts about the Hillsborough disaster, with the tool accusing supporters of causing the “deadly crush”.
Another user asked Grok to “vulgarly roast” Jota, who tragically died alongside his brother back in July at the age of just 28. The tool responded blaming Jota for the death of his sibling in another abhorrent post, which has been viewed by over two million people.
A request for Grok to mock Manchester United fans and to “really try to offend them” was also met with another vulgar post based around the Munich air disaster, which resulted in the death of 23 people.
Grok came under scrutiny earlier this year when the tool was used to undress people in images shared on X. Ofcom subsequently launched an investigation into xAI, who announced in January they had “implemented technological measures” to prevent the tool from doing so moving forward.
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