America.gov chatbot writes Minecraft-style poetry about taxpayers, echoing early AI hallucinations

bleudog12 · reddit · 2026-10-01

A Reddit user asked the US government's America.gov chatbot to play Minecraft and got back an essay echoing the famous 'subset of Minecraft' early-AI hallucination. The bot rhapsodizes about 'constituents' filing forms in a 'long dream,' mixing bureaucratic language with §§§-filled legal citations. The poster says it reminds them of heavily hallucinating early AI models.

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