In its official trending news section, X (formerly, Twitter) promoted a story with the headline “Iran Strikes Tel-Aviv with Heavy Missiles,” but it was fake — and it was created by X’s own AI chatbot, Grok.That was a year ago. And we thought that was bad.

— philmandelbaum.com (@philmandelbaum.bsky.social) 2025-05-15T23:55:59.559Z

I spoke to the person who AI-generated the Chicago Sun-Times reading list. Says he's very embarrassed. This was part of a generic package inserted into newspapers and other publications, so likely to run elsewhere. He didn't know it'd be in Chicago Sun-Timeswww.404media.co/chicago-sun-…

— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) 2025-05-20T14:47:27.261Z

OMG — it's a viral/syndicated hallucination. Paging @ryancordell.org and @dasmiq.bsky.social and Viral Texts.

— Ted Underwood (@tedunderwood.me) 2025-05-20T14:27:02.514Z

AI itself is neither evil nor good. It’s a tool to use—and for some, to use against others. The peril comes when we accept information to feed our emotional reaction rather than our considered response. And that peril exists across the political spectrum. (Thread)www.axios.com/2025/05/14/m…

— Jeff Roush (@jeffroushwriting.bsky.social) 2025-05-19T00:51:15.703Z

thanks google AI

— Bill Corbett (@billcorbett.bsky.social) 2025-05-18T22:00:55.778Z

Oh, sweet merciful fire, two notes:(1) Even Latham & Watkins, ya'll.(2) The lawyer defending an AI company for using stolen IP to train their AI/LLM used the company's AI/LLM to cite check her brief, which hallucinated results.fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc…

— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) 2025-05-15T19:49:05.202Z

This may be my new favourite hallucination. Thanks to @arynn.bsky.social for finding

— Dr Joe McIntyre (@drjoemcintyre.bsky.social) 2025-05-15T23:21:59.937Z

An AI leaderboard suggests the newest reasoning models used in chatbots are producing less accurate results because of higher hallucination rates. Experts say the problem is bigger than that

— New Scientist (@newscientist.com) 2025-05-16T09:59:13.016Z

Anthropic's lawyers take blame for AI 'hallucination' in music publishers' lawsuit reut.rs/4dhKCt0

— Reuters (@reuters.com) 2025-05-15T19:45:14.946Z

incredible: a lawyer acting for one of the world's biggest AI companies, Anthropic, had to apologise to a US court because they had cited an AI hallucination in their submission.techcrunch.com/2025/…

— CAMERON WILSON (@cameronwilson.bsky.social) 2025-05-16T00:13:47.000Z

AI will take your job as soon as it figures out what year it is

— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell.com) 2025-05-28T18:45:39.117Z

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-05-14T19:03:27.758Z

In the short run, loss of America’s appeal to scientists around the world. In the medium term, economic depression. In the long term, the US reverses its development.www.statnews.com/2025/05/08/t…

— Timothy Snyder (@timothysnyder.bsky.social) 2025-05-14T15:59:17.968Z

good for europealso this is extremely small potatoes tbf

— Zander Furnas (@alexanderfurnas.com) 2025-05-12T20:37:28.064Z

The Trump administration’s slowdown in science funding has left U.S.-based scientists and researchers scrambling to find homes for promising work that could lead to medical treatments and cures.Now, many are looking abroad.

— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) 2025-05-10T00:15:04Z

Florida. has fallen to 50th in the nation for average teacher pay.It’s the result of lawmakers failing to make public education a priority. Our students deserve better.📝 Write your legislator and demand they do better → bit.ly/4k3nIYy#DontDefundPublicSchools #DCFL

— TizzyWoman (@tizzywoman.bsky.social) 2025-05-14T21:39:53.645Z

“In the 1990s, when one of his advisers mentioned a news item projecting that nonwhite people could become the majority in the United States, Mr. Trump shot back that there would be a revolution should that happen. “This isn’t going to become South Africa,’” http://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u…

— City Nolan (@ndhapple.bsky.social) 2025-05-15T01:15:25.847Z

Sociologists are shocked, shocked.

— Benjamin Dreyer (@bcdreyer.social) 2025-05-20T03:32:06.190Z

the "multi-racial, working-class" Republican revolution has resulted in a coalition that is… 82% white

— G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris.com) 2025-05-20T13:27:34.810Z

shoutout to certain of my peers who called this overblown back in 2016 slate.com/news-and-pol…

— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) 2025-05-22T00:27:21.662Z

So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base!and they want to do it …… in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi…) …… so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here1/9

— Clive Thompson (@clivethompson.bsky.social) 2025-03-30T18:41:36.369Z

Fresh words ✨allyfromnola.medium.com/why-low-iq-i…

— Dr. Allison Wiltz (@allyfromnola.bsky.social) 2025-05-08T16:47:13.414Z

“Trump’s rhetoric: his obsession with labeling critics, especially Black individuals, as “low-IQ.”This pattern is not just a political strategy; it’s a deliberate psychological weapon rooted in America’s painful legacy of racialized intelligence narratives.”#MomSky

— Guardrails of Democracy (@demguardrails.bsky.social) 2025-05-07T21:08:35.079Z

I listened to President Trump call Rep. Jasmine Crockett a "low IQ individual" and I realized I had heard that before, so put the question to ChatGPT.

— Peter Sagal (@petersagal.bsky.social) 2025-05-04T21:41:08.483Z

Trump demeans three women of color members of Congress as "stupid," disses Chuck Schumer as a "Palestinian," and calls Queens "filthy, disgusting, crime ridden"

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-06-24T14:16:40.623Z