Grok Had a ‘Generation Glitch’ That Caused It to Send Users Pure Nonsense

People who used Grok Lite this week were no doubt surprised when the bot started sending long, large paragraphs of total gibberish. This is only slightly worse than its usual output, but it still had people in a tizzy, and understandably so.

The trouble started earlier in the week, with multiplepeopleposting on Reddit that Grok had “lost its mind,” meaning the chatbot was acting strangely. Though the bot would respond normally at first, it would devolve into buggy, nonsensical rants. The problem appeared to only impact Grok’s website interface, not mobile apps.

In response to a perfectly reasonable question, Grok responded: “Some is local but is add, and safety font but proper if research use glue for already.” Even the basic autocorrect in my web browser gets angry at that sentence.

Users reached out to Grok directly to ask what the problem was. The chatbot responded on X...

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