Rivals became allies over the last week as Manchester United and Liverpool both put the pressure on Elon Musk’s social media AI tool known as “Grok” on the site “X,” also known as the site that you go to when you put in Twitter dot com.
The American artificial intelligence company has made news recently for its incredibly loud and environmentally damaging data centers, but has also created controversy of the robot’s apparent programming to respond to incredibly controversial requests, such as generating pornographic images of people without consent and sharing vulgar or slanderous content.
The controversy involving the clubs included hate speech regarding disinformation surrounding the Hillsborough Stadium disaster, the tragic death of Diogo Jota last summer and the Munich Air Disaster.
The UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, launched an investigation into xAI in January after the tool generated AI images from requests to undress people, prompting a response that supposedly adjusted the mechanism, but issues have continued to pop up where users have requested vulgar images or responses.
In Scotland, there was also controversy after the AI tool generated a post in response to a Celtic-branded account, which blamed Rangers fans for the 1971 Ibrox disaster.
As of Sunday, the platform was forced to remove the posts under threat of a fine from the UK Government.