Instead of firing hardworking government workers, Elon Musk should have turned his Department of Government Efficiency loose on his team of developers who created Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot available on X.

I say this after going back and forth with Grok over several days because it wrongly claimed that a photo Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear posted of himself online from the site of the UPS crash on Nov. 4 had actually been taken years ago after devastating tornadoes in Western Kentucky.

It’s sad when a computer can turn a tragedy like the UPS crash into a political gotcha – but that’s where we are as we struggle to navigate the world we now occupy.

The Nov. 5 photo shows the governor standing next to a bare, charred tree, amid other wreckage. There’s a small green berm in the distance.

I didn’t buy Grok’s answer.

It just didn’t make sense.

We knew Beshear, along with Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg and U.S. Rep. Morgan McGarvey, had toured the crash site. Why would he post photos from four years ago?

So, I quizzed Grok.

“@grok, is this photo of Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, wearing jeans and a Kentucky Emergency Management Agency jacket, from the wreckage of UPS........

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