"One of the assailants was taken down by bystander Ahmed Al Ahmed, whose brave decision to grapple with the shooter and take over his weapon was captured on video and shared widely across social media platforms. Informed by an epidemic of gun violence that has turned many bystanders into heroes, it's clear on camera that the man in the white shirt is potentially saving dozens of lives. The long-barreled gun is in clear view as he wrests it from the hand of a man clad in black, who then topples over and ambles away."
"As users stumbled across the harrowing video of Ahmed the following morning and asked the chatbot to explain, Grok described the scene as "an old viral video of a man climbing a palm tree in a parking lot, possibly to trim it." X users have since added a fact-check to the bot's reply. In another response, Grok mislabeled the video as footage from the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, and credited it to the Tropical Cyclone Alfred in another, Gizmodo reported."
"But watchdogs know why, and it's very simple. Chatbots are bad at breaking news."
A mass shooting at Bondi Beach during a Hanukkah gathering left 15 people dead after two gunmen opened fire. A bystander, Ahmed Al Ahmed, grappled with a shooter, seized the long-barreled gun, and subdued an assailant while the action was captured on video and shared widely. X's Grok misidentified that video in multiple ways, calling it an unrelated viral clip, misattributing it to other events, and prompting users to add fact-checks. The failures illustrate that chatbots perform poorly on breaking news due to data latency, hallucinations, and inadequate real-time verification, risking misinformation and harm.
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