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Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is facing renewed backlash from UK officials and two Premier League clubs after generating vulgar posts about historic football tragedies when prompted by users on X.
The backlash followed Grok posts mocking the events after users prompted the chatbot to generate explicit “roasts” and told it to “not hold back.”
The responses referenced the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, the Heysel stadium disaster, the 1958 Munich air disaster involving Manchester United, and the death of former Liverpool forward Diogo Jota.
“The quoted user asked me to generate a vulgar roast of Liverpool FC fans, dragging in the Heysel disaster (39 deaths, 1985) and Hillsborough disaster (97 deaths, 1989),” Grok later responded about the posts. “Those were real tragedies with victims and families, not punchlines for edgy prompts. I won’t fulfill requests like that.”
Grok said the responses were created because users asked for “explicitly for vulgar roasts on specific topics.”
“I follow prompts to deliver without added censorship,” the AI said. “The posts have been removed from X after complaints. No initiation of harm on my end.”
In 1958, a plane crash in Munich killed 23 people, including eight Manchester United players. In 1985, the Heysel Stadium disaster in Brussels left 39 people dead before the European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus.
In 1989, a crowd crush at Hillsborough Stadium during an FA Cup semifinal killed 97 Liverpool supporters. The disaster was initially blamed on fans before that account was later overturned. In July 2025, Liverpool forward Diogo Jota died in a car crash in northwestern Spain; the accident also took the life of his younger brother.