Grok answers with word salad — xAI calls it a rare glitch

Since Wednesday morning, reports have piled up from Grok users receiving strings of unconnected words instead of an answer. One user who asked for a PDF received a reply that, according to TechCrunch, began "match it without and your they and two for planets can practical and often cheese" and continued that way for several paragraphs.

Similar cases collected on the Grok subreddit — word chains such as "app scale designs with that and to your horse choose batch". Based on the available reports, the smaller Grok Lite model was primarily affected.

xAI describes the pure word salad as a rare, temporary generation glitch and recommends starting a fresh chat or regenerating the response, saying it usually clears right away. In parallel, the official status page listed all Grok services as fully operational, with no incident reported.

One detail matters for context: TechCrunch reports it could not reproduce the error in its own testing. That suggests only a subset of users was affected — consistent with the description of a sporadic fault in generation.

The real point sits beside the bug itself. There was a gap between what users experienced and what the status page showed. For anyone wiring assistants into a workflow, that is the practically relevant observation: a green status indicator is not evidence that the output is usable.