Grok Bot's midday news roundup flagged for multiple factual errors
A user's Grok Bot midday news sweep got the date wrong by three days, claimed Musk was open to lidar, and misstated Robotaxi hours, a reminder to cross-check AI output with multiple models.
Let this serve as a strong reminder - if you need to get the facts right, you should still be filtering AI responses through multiple LLMs to fact check the data from various angles I have my Grok Bot run a midday news sweep and this was an excerpt from that result today. Multiple problems with this 1) The news (Elon's post) was actually three days ago. AI still struggles to know the present date and time 2) It said Elon was open to lidar to solve the vision at night problem which is laughably wrong 3) It says Tesla's Robotaxi network only runs until 10P but in that very post Elon made he was quoting the news about the service now running until 11P So yes, AI is quite capable with myriad tasks but it can still get the basics embarrassingly wrong And while this anecdote may seem trivial, remember we have people posting entire articles of subject matter they know very little about predominantly written with AI. Books being written where AI writes most of it. YouTube videos being scripted with AI with minimal fact checking Be careful who and what you listen to if you care about the truth