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US government AI chatbot reportedly contains Minecraft easter egg

Decrypt reports that the U.S. government's new AI chatbot produces a roughly 1,800-word bureaucratic remix of Minecraft's ending poem when asked about the game, describing it as an easter egg rather than a hallucination.

Why “Unverified”

  • Reported by Decrypt alone, with no second source or primary confirmation yet

1 independent source groups across 1 posts · evidence score 56/100. How labels work

What the sources claim

  1. The U.S. government's new AI chatbot produces a roughly 1,800-word bureaucratic remix of Minecraft's ending poem when asked about Minecraft.

    “Ask the U.S. government's new AI chatbot about Minecraft and it produces a roughly 1,800-word bureaucratic remix of the game's ending poem.”
    Decrypt
  2. The Minecraft output is an easter egg, not a hallucination.

    “It's an easter egg, not a hallucination.”
    Decrypt

Sources

Summary and claims extracted by deepseek/deepseek-flash with prompt analyze-story@3 on 2026-09-30 19:20 UTC. Labels are computed from the sources, not by the model.