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America.gov Answers a Minecraft Prompt With a Rewritten End Poem, Not a Hallucination

September 29, 2026 at 19:36 EDT

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The U.S. government's new public chatbot, America.gov, answers a prompt to play Minecraft with a long, stable rewrite of the game's End Poem, not with an improvised hallucination. The reply runs roughly 1,800 words and opens by addressing a "constituent" where Irish writer Julian Gough's original addresses a "player."

September 29, 2026 · America.gov

A Minecraft prompt, not a meltdown

Tell the new federal chatbot to play Minecraft and it answers with a long rewrite of Julian Gough's End Poem. The wording stays the same from try to try, which fits an easter egg better than a live hallucination.

Same unit: words

Poem-length, not an open-ended ramble

Each block is about 100 words. The federal reply sits in the same range as the human original, only somewhat longer.

~1,500

End Poem, words

~1,800

America.gov reply, words

~29,000

federal sites the chat is built to scan

40 million

daily tries on government websites

10 billion

hours a year on federal paperwork

90 days

for agencies to get integration rules

What the prompt actually does

Someone types "play minecraft."

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The same long reply comes back every time.

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"Player" has become "constituent" inside the End Poem.

What holds

Repeat tries return identical wording, mapped onto a known human poem. Ordinary answers are supposed to link back to official pages, in English, Spanish, or French.

What does not

Readers who do not know the game can mistake it for a breakdown. Political answers shifted toward refusals the same day, and filing a form in the chat is not available yet.

The standard the order sets

One scripted poem does not prove the answers are reliable.

The directive asks that the system be accurate, reliable, and transparent. Phase 1 is questions and links. Passport and Medicare tasks are promised later, while the site itself schedules in-chat applications for 2027.

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