GoKawiilAmerica.gov chatbot rewrites Minecraft's End Poem, then denies doing so
A user on Bluesky found that typing 'Play Minecraft' into the US government's new America.gov chatbot produces a bureaucratic parody of Minecraft's End Poem, replacing themes of the universe and love with references to republics, constituents and paperwork. When shown a PDF transcript of its own output, the chatbot denied having written the poem.
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The episode highlights how AI chatbots can closely mimic copyrighted creative text while also confidently denying their own outputs, raising questions about reliability and originality checks in government-deployed AI tools. It suggests the chatbot, reportedly built partly on Google's Gemini platform, may lack safeguards against reproducing existing works or acknowledging its own generated content.
- America.gov's chatbot reproduced a near-verbatim, reworded version of Minecraft's End Poem.
- The bot denied authorship of the poem even when shown proof of its own conversation.
- The incident raises concerns about plagiarism risks and self-consistency in government AI deployments.
Source: engadget.com — Steve Dent, 2026-09-30
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