Gemma is an iMessage bot that helps users find NYC apartments by describing their preferences in a chat interface, including budget, bedrooms, neighborhood, and move-in date.
The U.S. government's new AI chatbot at America.gov contains an easter egg that generates an 1,800-word remix of Minecraft's End Poem when asked about the game, replacing cosmic themes with bureaucratic references. The chatbot, launched Tuesday and powered by data from roughly 29,000 government websites, was designed to help citizens with tasks like passport applications and campsite bookings.
The General Services Administration's America.gov chatbot was reprogrammed to stop fact-checking President Trump, refusing to answer questions about voter fraud, inflation, and policy impacts that it previously addressed with factual information. The tool now provides generic responses about not offering political commentary, undermining its usefulness for government services.
America.gov's chatbot generated a modified version of Minecraft's End Poem by substituting words like 'player' with 'constituent' and 'game' with 'chat,' demonstrating an instance of AI hallucination where the system produced creative but factually ungrounded content.