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Grok Chatbot Malfunctions, Sends Gibberish Responses to Users

2026-08-20 | USA | incident | psychological
Our take

Grok Lite spent a day producing gibberish. Regular users report no way to tell the difference.

The facts

Elon Musk's xAI Grok chatbot experienced a glitch, causing it to generate nonsensical, gibberish responses for users, mainly on the Grok Lite web platform. The issue led to user confusion and frustration, but was acknowledged by xAI as a temporary bug and has since been resolved.

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