Grok Has Been Returning Gibberish to Users Since Wednesday
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TechCrunch reported on August 20 that Grok is sending garbled, nonsensical responses, with affected users saying they were on Grok Lite and first noticed the problem Wednesday morning. xAI had not explained the cause at publication. It lands in the same week as the Cryptographic Context Injection disclosure, a rough stretch for the product's reliability story.