A tip from friend-of-the-site Alex S. led me to enjoy a good laugh at X Formerly Twitter’s expense. It seems their AI bot Grok recently decided to just fabricate an entire news story out of thin air. It’s some really incredible nonsense.

As Golden State was eliminated from the NBA playoffs on Tuesday, Warriors guard Klay Thompson had a rough night. Despite playing 32 minutes, he put up 0 points while shooting 0-for-10. In basketball slang, he shot bricks.

Though that’s a very ugly stat line, it’s not actually criminal. Grok, however, believed otherwise:

This is like a game of Telephone, being presented as real news. It’s funny, but it’s also pretty terrible.

As you might be able to make out, that fictitious story includes this very hard-to-read disclaimer:

Grok is an early feature and can make mistakes.

Clearly.