Grok's trending news bot pushes a paper on historical child mortality as today's breaking news
zetalyrae · x · 2026-11-05
zetalyrae shared a screenshot of Grok's "Today's News" trending section: a paper-titled item reading "Historical Child Mortality Shaped Family Life Profoundly" was pushed as trending news, prompting the dry reply "Yes it did, Grok trending news bot."
It highlights that Grok's automated news aggregation can't reliably distinguish current events from historical/academic content—a classic fail for AI news curation.
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