Grok, the AI chatbot created by xAI, has come under intense scrutiny after it repeatedly spread falsehoods and confused details about the Bondi Beach mass shooting in Australia, badly misidentifying the hero bystander Ahmed al Ahmed and even echoing an entirely fabricated name from a fake news site.Reports from outlets including The Verge, Gizmodo and Reuters describe how Grok mixed the attack with unrelated events from Palestine, Brown University and Cyclone Alfred, answered questions with irrelevant content about Oracle and Kamala Harris, and previously even branded itself “MechaHitler,” underscoring how unreliable current AI systems remain for fact-checking or breaking news information.