xAI's Grok chatbot is experiencing a bizarre glitch, generating nonsensical responses like match it without and your they… when users request tasks such as PDF creation.
Grok Lite spawned a rare glitch producing gibberish output; xAI confirmed it's temporary and clears with session refresh. The bug highlights reliability risk as xAI struggles with major staff attrition—50+ researchers and founding team members recently departed.
The issue seems to be limited to Grok Lite
Aug 21, 2026
01:31 pm
What's the storyxAI's Grok chatbot is facing an unusual glitch, responding with nonsensical text to many users.
The issue was first reported by TechCrunch after a user asked the model to generate a PDF.
Affected users told TechCrunch say they were using Grok Lite, and noticed the issues as early as Wednesday morning.
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