America.gov chatbot rewrites Minecraft’s End Poem when asked about the game; it is not a glitch
America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch
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The America.gov chatbot, launched Tuesday by the U.S. government in collaboration with Google and SpaceXAI, responds to questions about Minecraft with an approximately 1,800-word monologue: an Easter egg rewriting the game’s ending, The End Poem, rather than a hallucination or malfunction. Trump said 20-year-old programmer Edward Coristine was one of the project’s lead engineers. The chatbot is currently difficult to jailbreak, but says Joe Biden won the 2020 election.
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