“Hey @grok, is it true?” -What questions have become a go-to for X users trying to check the viral post. Since it is launched in November 2023, Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot Groke has been used as a rapid response fact-chaker for users on the platform.
In July, XAI, Artificial Intelligence Company of Musca was set on fire after controversial reactions from Groke, which flagged off as antisemtic. This came weekly when Musk announced that he would rebuild the bot, saying that it had become very political. Soon after, XAI promised major upgradation to improve the performance of the grouke “within a few days.”
But now, online in the form of images and videos of malnourished children from Gaza, Groke has repeatedly misleading claims about misleading or origin.
The DW Fact Czech reviewed the claims of Groke and found many inaccurates in the posts for which it responded.
Groke says that the viral image of Gaza girl is actually from Iraq
claim: A Viral image Gaza was shared by several online from the crowd of a young girl for food, which was incorrectly identified by Groke as a picture from Iraq in 2014.
Was shared by image X account Along with approximately 2 million followers, claiming that it showed a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. One user responded to the postTagging the grouke and asking for verification.
Groke replied:
“This photo was near Sinjar Mountain in Iraq on August 10, 2014, a Yazidi girl on a truck shows Isis violence. It is not from Gaza in 2025, despite the recent misunderstanding.”
Subsequently, the claim of Groke Flood X With the assessment of several echoes, the image was dismissed as misinformation and lies.
DW fact check: Untrue
A reverse image search on Google discovered the photo back to the Associated Press. The image is actually from recent and from Gaza. It was taken on 26 July 2025 by an associated press photographer, Abdel Karim Hana in Gaza City.
This photo is part of the verified set of 11 photos that show that Palestinians have to struggle to donate to a community kitchen in the northern Gaza Strip. Another image was uploaded by AP -Show from another perspective.
The photo agency in question appears in the database with a clear metadata that confirms time, location and reference. The scene depicted the lack of severe food amidst the ongoing struggle, the contradictory claims that the image is unrelated to Gaza.
Hence the claim of Groke is incorrect. The image is authentic, recently taken in Gaza and not in Iraq. As misinformed information spreads during humanitarian crises, fully relying on AI devices such as groukes can draw a wrong conclusion. In this case, many online used it to claim a hunger crisis in Gaza, it was not as bad as the ground was claimed, as the photos used to report about it were not more real, or work out of reference from other fields.
Groke says that a recent picture of Gaza is real from Yemen
claim: A picture of a Palestinian child in Gaza is a child’s real in Yemen, taken in 2016. This was a groce’s reaction to a user investigation about the images of a gaza child and her mother who was shared in a post by American Senator Berney Sanders.
Sanders wrote: “Netanyahu says that ‘there is no starvation in Gaza.” That’s a lie.
Below his post, a user asked Groke: “What years are from these images?”
For which grake Reactive,
“Thesis images are from 2016, showing malnourished children in a hospital in Hodida, Yemen amid civil war. They do not portray the current events in Gaza.”
Sander’s post was that the picture was flooded with users who repeated the assessment of the grouke that the picture was unrelated to Gaza.
Groke has repeated the same baseless evaluation in other languages, including French,
DW fact check: Untrue
The picture is recently and shows a family in Gaza.
Images have been widely shared on social media amidst increasing public concern over starvation in Gaza.
Photo is available through the discovery of agencies as an associated press. Matadata confirms: Naima Abu Full is ready for a photo of his 2 -year -old malnourished children, Yazan, on Wednesday, July 23, 2025 at his home in Gaza city at Shati refugee camp in Gaza City.
Yazan is reportedly suffering from a genetic disease and malnutrition. On July 24, AP Published a detailed story On the life of Yazan at Shati refugee camp in Gaza city, highlighting the fact that the boy does not get the nutrition that he needs.
AI checks the fact rapidly, but is wrong
Both pictures were published by Grockes for other crises above, published by Associated Presses. 29 July To attract attention, what experts now call the worst starvation crisis in Gaza.
For a new warning by integrated food safety phase classification (IPC), “the worst position of famine is currently playing in the Gaza Strip, with the prophecies of” wide death “, immediate action has been taken. The report accelerated the Israeli blockade, which already deteriorates the critical condition as a major factor.
This is not the first time Groke has created controversy. In June, users were confused with the contradictory answers of the chatbot about a picture showing the deployment of a contingent for protests in Los Angeles.
As Some estimateGrokes are now about 6.7 million daily users.
Since AI tools such as groukes become more for the fact-checking, there is a reminder firm: do not leave the actual fact.
Edited by: Rachel Baig, Felix Tamsut
Correction, August 1, 2025: Remember the name of AP photographer Abdel Karim Hana in the first edition of this article. DW waiver for error.
