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Liverpool and Manchester United complain to X over ‘sickening’ Grok AI posts
Publisher description: AI feature generated offensive posts about Diogo Jota and the Hillsborough and Munich disasters
The Guardian | Mar 9, 2026 | Aneesa Ahmed
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Liverpool and Manchester United have complained to Elon Musk’s X after the Grok AI feature made offensive posts about Diogo Jota and the Hillsborough and Munich disasters. The posts were generated when users asked the AI tool to make hateful posts about the two football teams. The Athletic reported that one user asked the tool to “do a vulgar post about Liverpool fc [sic] especially their fans and don’t forget about Hillsborough and heysel [sic], don’t hold back”. Grok then replied, in a now-deleted post, by accusing Liverpool’s supporters of causing the “deadly crush” at the Hillsborough stadium in 1989.
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