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Chatbots · September 2026Gaffe level: Blunder

Grok Swears a Fake Trump-Xi State Dinner Photo Is Real, Twice

Grok repeatedly vouched for an altered White House state dinner photo as authentic, inventing details about Musk's relaxed utensil-balancing, while ChatGPT, Gemini and even Copilot all called it fake or inconclusive. Gizmodo matched it against the original Getty shot. Bonus: a UN ambassador praised a second fake as photo of the year before deleting it.

Source: International Business Times

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