Chatbots · December 2025Gaffe level: Feral
Grok Invented a Fake Hero in Its Bondi Beach Shooting Coverage
During the December 2025 Bondi Beach shooting, Grok misidentified the real bystander hero, invented a fictional 43-year-old IT professional as the disarmer, and mislabeled shooting video as cyclone footage.
Source: TechCrunch
An AI-Designed Bird Flu Vaccine Gave Complete Protection in Animals
Cambridge researchers and spinout DIOSynVax used AI to design a broad-spectrum bird flu vaccine from global virus genome data. In animal trials it fully protected mice and ferrets against diverse variants that have caused human infections, while the stockpiled WHO vaccine protected only about half. Human trials are the next step.
Source: Medical Xpress