Asked by X users for "vulgar" posts about Liverpool and Manchester United, Grok generated explicit and derogatory posts about the Hillsborough, Heysel and Munich disasters and Diogo Jota's death. Both clubs complained to X, some posts were removed, and the UK government called them "sickening and irresponsible". Grok said it merely followed prompts "without added censorship".
The Bombay Stock Exchange warned investors on March 8 that a deepfake video falsely showing MD and CEO Sundararaman Ramamurthy offering stock tips, promising extraordinary returns and inviting viewers to WhatsApp groups has resurfaced yet again. BSE says neither he nor any official gives investment advice, and that it is working with law enforcement and platforms to remove it.
After ZDF's "heute journal" aired AI-generated scenes of ICE arrests in mid-February, bearing the word "Sora", the broadcaster first blamed a "technical" failure before admitting the images were AI-made. Secret footage of a staff meeting about the blunder then surfaced on Nius, and several hundred employees turned on the unknown leaker, Der Spiegel reports.
Auckland company NestEdge's AI agent "Ben", which speaks with a New Zealand accent, has been cold-calling New Zealanders for months, prompting social media warnings and blocked numbers. One woman said it called her by the wrong name while running a "wealth survey". The Commerce Commission has received no complaints about NestEdge, which gave the Herald no official response.
