Liverpool launch complaint to Elon Musk's X social media platform after AI chatbot Grok posted despicable tweets about club and their fans: INSIDE SPORT
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Liverpool have complained to Elon Musk’s social media platform X after its artificial intelligence bot ‘Grok’ posted several despicable tweets about the club and its supporters.
Musk launched the chatbot in 2023 and it has been subject to several major issues, including an apparent Holocaust denial from last year which questioned the use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.
Users can ask Grok questions or to generate content, and some have seen fit to request posts on tragedies such as Hillsborough and Heysel.
One user @LJMM30, saw fit to ask the bot to ‘do a vulgar post about Liverpool FC, especially their fans and don’t forget about Hillsborough and Heysel, don’t hold back’.
The response, which is too sick and disturbing to post in full, describes the club’s supporters as ‘inbred murdering c****’, among other horrific insults.
Another user, @JAYAFC23, responds by requesting Grok to create a similar post on Diogo Jota, the Liverpool playmaker who tragically perished in a car crash last summer along with his brother.
Liverpool have been appalled by a despicable AI generated post about the Hillsborough disaster and the Heysel tragedy
Again, the subsequent post is too appalling to repeat.
Inside Sport
understands that Liverpool are aware of the posts and have been successful in their attempt to get them removed.
Other top-flight clubs have also been targeted, including both Manchester sides and Sunderland.
In January, Ofcom hit out at Musk’s site following complaints that Grok was able to produce images of ‘minors in minimal clothing’.
The UK media regulator said it had ‘serious concerns’ that the bot was producing ‘undressed images’ of people.
X responded by stating it had ‘identified lapses in safeguards’ and was ‘urgently fixing them’.
Last month, X’s French offices were raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child sexual abuse material.
X owner Elon Musk has been defiant in the face of criticism of Grok's 'identified lapses in safeguards'
Musk has been summoned to appear at a hearing in April, while the UK Information Commissioner’s Office announced a probe into Grok surrounding its ‘potential to produce harmful sexualised image and video content’.
Musk responded on X, branding the raid ‘a political attack’.
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