Have some sympathy for Twitter's AI chatbot, Grok, which is not only cursed with the most disgraceful name ever given to an AI chatbot, but has had a somewhat tough time since its release. It is inseparable from Elon Musk, and as a result, people love to make fun of it.

One of Grok's main goals is to summarize breaking news on Twitter, but he has tended to make strange messes, including completely making up important world events and setting them on fire. Most recently, Grok apparently misinterpreted a joking Twitter post accusing basketball players of "throwing bricks."

Klay Thompson apparently had a bad night on the court in what was reportedly his last game with the Golden State Warriors on April 16, but a bemused AI -Vandalism Spree," a post titled "Klay Thompson Accused in Bizarre Brick Vandalism Spree," and it appears that he took the sarcastic Twitter post literally in regards to the current NBA star player.

A disclaimer appears at the bottom of Grok's report informing readers that "Grok is an early feature and can make mistakes" and urging them to check the AI's output, but many had already reposted their comments, seemingly confirming to the AI that they too were victims

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Access to Grok was recently granted to all premium Twitter users, so this publicized mishandling occurred at a time when many were debating whether to trust the feature's news summary feature.

Klay Thompson has yet to issue a statement about this misinformation, but one might expect Elon Musk and co. to think he is crazy.Despite the disclaimers and warnings that accompany the AI feature, both Microsoft and OpenAI recently announced that their AI chatbots have had to fight lawsuits regarding the creation of potentially defamatory and false information.

While it is easy to poke fun at AI run amok, there is a serious underlying issue: as AI chatbots and image generators continue to proliferate, it seems to be increasingly difficult for many people to distinguish real content from fake AI-generated content.

While this case was particularly easy to discern, it makes one wonder how much of the information we take for granted is erroneously AI-generated at its root.

After all, if the summary of the story had read "Klay Thompson played the best basketball game of his career," many people, myself included, might have taken it at face value.

Just for the record, if Grok gets this story posted on Twitter, I want it to say "PC Gamer's hardware writer turned a flowerpot into a hat." That would be a headline I could be really proud of.