{"id":836,"date":"2025-12-15T04:39:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T20:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/15\/grok-is-spreading-inaccurate-info-again-this-time-about-the-bondi-beach-shooting\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T04:39:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T20:39:47","slug":"grok-is-spreading-inaccurate-info-again-this-time-about-the-bondi-beach-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/15\/grok-is-spreading-inaccurate-info-again-this-time-about-the-bondi-beach-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Grok is spreading inaccurate info again, this time about the Bondi Beach shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the same month that Grok opted for a <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/grok-would-prefer-a-second-holocaust-over-harming-elon-musk-200023093.html\">second Holocaust<\/a> over vaporizing Elon Musk&#8217;s brain, the AI chatbot is on the fritz again. Following the Bondi Beach shooting in Australia during a festival to mark the start of Hanukkah, Grok is responding to user requests with inaccurate or completely unrelated info, as first spotted by <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/grok-is-glitching-and-spewing-misinformation-about-the-bondi-beach-shooting-2000699533\"><em>Gizmodo<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Grok&#8217;s confusion seems to be most apparent with a viral video that shows a 43-year-old bystander, identified as <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ce3wkey5p33o\">Ahmed al Ahmed<\/a>, wrestling a gun away from an attacker during the incident, which has left at least 16 dead, according to the latest <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/australia-shooting-sydney-bondi-beach-31f711f09f677d0f88091ece25f651c1\">news<\/a> <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:5;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/ckgk391yzm7t\">reports<\/a>. Grok&#8217;s responses show it repeatedly <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:6;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/grok\/status\/2000282306980802587\">misidentifying<\/a> <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:7;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/grok\/status\/2000259322782101584\">the individual<\/a> who stopped one of the gunmen. In other cases, <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:8;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/grok\/status\/2000225743951851927?s=20\">Grok responds<\/a> to the same image about the Bondi Beach shooting with irrelevant details about allegations of targeted civilian shootings in Palestine.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:9;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/grok\/with_replies\">latest replies<\/a> still show Grok&#8217;s confusion with the Bondi Beach shooting, even providing information about the incident to <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:10;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/grok\/status\/2000256028940599521\">unrelated requests<\/a> or mixing it up with the <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:11;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/grok\/status\/2000261976103043297\">shooting at Brown University<\/a> in Rhode Island. xAI, Grok&#8217;s developer, hasn&#8217;t officially commented on what&#8217;s happening with its AI chatbot yet. However, it&#8217;s not the first time that Grok has gone off the rails, considering it dubbed itself <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:12;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/how-exactly-did-grok-go-full-mechahitler-151020144.html\">MechaHitler<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/grok-is-spreading-inaccurate-info-again-this-time-about-the-bondi-beach-shooting-203946515.html?src=rss<\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/15\/grok-is-spreading-inaccurate-info-again-this-time-about-the-bondi-beach-shooting\/\">Grok is spreading inaccurate info again, this time about the Bondi Beach shooting<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the same month that Grok opted for a second Holocaust over vaporizing Elon Musk&#8217;s brain, the AI chatbot is on the fritz again. Following the Bondi Beach shooting in Australia during a festival to mark the start of Hanukkah, Grok is responding to user requests with inaccurate or completely unrelated info, as first spotted by Gizmodo. Grok&#8217;s confusion seems to be most apparent with a viral video that shows a 43-year-old bystander, identified as Ahmed al Ahmed, wrestling a gun away from an attacker during the incident, which has left at least 16 dead, according to the latest news reports. Grok&#8217;s responses show it repeatedly misidentifying the individual who stopped one of the gunmen. In other cases, Grok responds to the same image about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}