In the US, America.gov chatbot generates a reworking of Minecraft’s end poem — TechCrunch

In the United States, the government-launched America.gov chatbot generates a text of about 1,800 words, styled after the game’s end poem, in response to queries about Minecraft. As TechCrunch reports, the unusual response is not a glitch or an accidental artificial intelligence hallucination.

References to Minecraft

The chatbot’s text is a reworked version of the Minecraft End Poem, a poem that players see after completing the game. It was written by Julian Gough. In the America.gov version, the original lines were adapted to the theme of American bureaucracy: the text mentions a case number, the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, a memo and office hours.

In particular, the chatbot describes its interlocutor as a person who “did not give up when the PDF was returned sideways.” In subsequent lines, the republic addresses the user, combining existential phrasing with bureaucratic details, including a reference to a missing signature.

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Chatbot development

The U.S. government unveiled America.gov on Tuesday. It partnered with Google and SpaceXAI to create the chatbot. The publication notes that users have so far found it difficult to bypass the system’s restrictions.

It is unknown who exactly added the Minecraft references to the chatbot. President Donald Trump said in a speech that one of the project’s leading engineers was 20-year-old programmer Edward Coristin, also known for his involvement in Elon Musk’s DOGE.