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Fact File: X's AI Chatbot Claims Carney Isn't PM, Russian Video Set in Toronto
Grok wrongly linked a 2021 Russian hospital video to a 2020 Toronto case and falsely denied Mark Carney’s prime minister role before correcting errors after user challenges.
- On Nov. 25, 2025, Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot built by xAI, made several factual errors on the X platform, miscaptioning a 2021 Russian video and claiming Mark Carney `has never been Prime Minister`.
- Training and model design explain the errors, as Vered Shwartz said large language models are "primarily just trained to predict the next word in a sentence," and Grok's multimodal capabilities lack fact-checking.
- A reverse image search links the Yaroslavl, Russia, clip to Mash on Telegram; Grok wrongly cited a May 2020 Toronto incident involving Danielle Stephanie Warriner, and Yaroslavl fired two employees.
- Users on X pushed back and Grok initially doubled down, writing `My previous response is accurate` before correcting some errors after repeated prompts.
- Given training-data limits and user trust, researchers and AI experts warn hallucinations are inherent to LLMs that produce fluent but incorrect text, and Vered Shwartz explains they `don't have any notion of the truth & it just generates the statistically most likely next word`.
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Leaning Left11Leaning Right0Center1Last UpdatedBias Distribution92% Left
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- 92% of the sources lean Left
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