X investigating vulgar responses by chatbot Grok

Well, we've spotted users on it asking Grock to produce highly offensive, vulgar comments about various groups of people and incidents. And what we've uncovered is Grock producing racist, hatefilled commentaries about Hinduism and Islam. And in football terms, which is how we started looking at it, blaming Manchester United fans, blaming Liverpool fans and Rangers fans falsely for stadium disasters, the Hillsbor Stadium disaster in ' 89 when it was fine that actually Liverpool fans were unlawfully killed. The Ibro Stadium disaster in 1971, attacking the conduct of Rangers fans there falsely. and it was also mocking the 1958 Munich air disaster which killed uh 23 involving Manchester United's uh plane. Now we've been looking into this. X have told us they are urgent looking into this. Since we asked them questions, they have been removing some of the most offensive pieces of content. Liverpool and Manchester United have asked them to remove these. Now I have heard now from the government condemning Grock and this is just 2 months after X was threatened with being taken offline in this country over the highly sexualized images that Grock was producing when people were asking it to undress women. Now this is what the government had telling me. A spokesperson for the department for science innovation and technology telling Sky News that these posts are sickening and irresponsible. They go against British values and decency. AI services, including chat bots that enable users to share content, are regulated under the online safety act, and must prevent illegal content, including hatred and abusive materials on their services. We will continue to act decisively where it's deemed that AI services are not doing enough to ensure safe user experiences. Now, ultimately, under the online safety act, a company like X could be fined 10% of its earnings. Uh they could also get the site taken offline. But what we're seeing is yet more concerns about the responses automatically generated by Elon Musk's Grock AI chat box through X, which in this case we found racist, highly offensive posts there, which it does seem that they are acting on, but no word of what extra safeguards they are putting in place to protect that user experience. >> And briefly, any word from the footballing community? >> Well, we are being told that Liverpool and Manchester United did contact X. They have got that response to get them to take down these posts. And this plays into the wider concerns. We see it in stadiums with tragedy chanting where rival fans will mock disasters like the 1989 Hillsbor disaster and the Munich air disaster in 1958. And the CPS do take action against that. In fact, Grock was asked about isn't this against the law? And what it actually said in response is that uh no it isn't. Grock was itself was generating responses today saying uh this doesn't qualify as hate speech under UK law. Football fans aren't protected. And it went on when it even pointed out these cases took place. This was AI's prompted exaggerated response to a user's request for vulgar football banter. Different context.

Elon Musk's AI tool Grok is being used to generate hate-filled racist posts online, in the latest concerning trend on the social media platform X. Sky News understands X is urgently investigating the chatbot's responses. #skynews #uknews #socialmedia #grok #ai #elonmusk SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skynews Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skynews Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skynews Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@skynews For more content go to http://news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sky-news/id316391924?mt=8 Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&hl=en_GB Sky News Daily podcast is available for free here: https://podfollow.com/skynewsdaily/ To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https://news.sky.com/info/library-sales