Grok Responded to a PDF Request with "match it without and your they and two for planets can practical and often cheese"

A subset of Grok Lite users on Grok.com began receiving pure word-salad responses Wednesday, with the chatbot producing strings of unrelated words instead of answers. One user who asked for a PDF got back several paragraphs of nonsense starting with "match it without and your they and two for planets can practical and often cheese." xAI called it a rare temporary generation glitch and pointed to a status page showing all services operational. Refreshing usually fixed it, though some users on Reddit reported the gibberish persisting after multiple reloads.

The timing is notable if not conclusive: the glitch arrived amid documented heavy turnover at xAI, which has reportedly lost most of its founding team and at least 50 researchers and engineers since shipping Grok 4.5 in July. xAI has not confirmed any connection between the staffing churn and the failure, and generation glitches do occur across labs. The Grok account on X was unaffected, and TechCrunch couldn't reproduce the issue, suggesting it hit only a small slice of users.