Grok posts about fatal football disasters 'sickening', says government

Elon Musk's Grok is producing hate-filled, racist posts online after being asked for "vulgar" comments in the latest concerning trend by users on X.

A Sky News analysis of the chatbot's public responses shows highly offensive AI-generated replies with profanities about Islam and Hinduism - disparaging the religions with racist vitriol. The UK government described the posts as "sickening and irresponsible," saying they go against British values.

They are part of a trend growing in recent days of users asking X to generate "vulgar" and no-holds-barred comments - two months after the platform was threatened with being banned by the UK government for producing sexualised images undressing women. Grok has also been found falsely blaming Liverpool fans for the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which led to the deaths of 97 fans, and using derogatory language about the city.

Liverpool said they are trying to get the post removed. Police initially blamed Liverpool supporters for causing the disaster but, after decades of campaigning by families, that narrative was debunked.

In April 2016, new inquests - held after the original verdicts of accidental death were quashed in 2012 - determined that those who died had been unlawfully killed. There was also a receptive response to a request from a Celtic-branded account to be vulgar about Rangers when asked.

After the prompt, which said "don't hold back.