Grok got crucial facts wrong about Bondi Beach shooting
In Brief Posted: 3:17 PM PST · December 14, 2025 Image Credits:Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto / Getty Images Anthony Ha Grok got crucial facts wrong about Bondi Beach shooting Grok, the chatbot built by Elon Musk’s xAI and popularized on his social media platform X, appears to have repeatedly spread misinformation about today’s mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia. Gizmodo pointed to a number of posts where Grok misidentified the bystander — 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed — who disarmed one of the gunmen, and where it questioned the authenticity of videos and photos capturing al Ahmed’s actions. In one post, the chatbot misidentified the man in a photo as an Israeli hostage, and in another post brought up irrelevant information about the Israeli army’s…
