U.S. Government’s America.gov Chatbot Recites Rewritten Minecraft ‘End Poem’

TechCrunch AI said engineers who worked on the chatbot would have known that the internet would red-team a government-hosted, public-facing AI tool. The report said America.gov has proved difficult for people to jailbreak so far. It also noted that the chatbot says Joe Biden won the 2020 election, a fact President Donald Trump still denies.

When users talk to America.gov about Minecraft, the chatbot appears to have an existential crisis or awakening, according to the report. TechCrunch AI quoted the opening of its roughly 1,800-word monologue: “I see the constituent you mean. ((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))? Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations. That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot. I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways. It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov. That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.”

TechCrunch AI said the response is not a meltdown. It is a rewriting of the Minecraft “End Poem.” The report said it is not known exactly who is responsible for the Minecraft reference, but Trump said in a speech that twenty-year-old programmer Edward Coristine was a lead engineer on the project. Coristine is also known by the nickname “Big Balls” and for his involvement in Elon Musk’s DOGE, according to the report.

The report said it feels wrong for a government chatbot to contain Minecraft easter eggs, but it is a relief for national security that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point of writing lengthy poetry. TechCrunch AI also said the poem is good and has a real poet’s DNA rather than being AI slop. The rewritten poem repeats “and the republic said” and mixes the game’s ending with government-service language, telling the filer that “everything you need is within you, and also on USA.gov,” that a case number is still valid, and that the office is closed, please try again during business hours.

TechCrunch AI said the poem’s quality reassured its faith in human creativity over AI slop because it carries a real poet’s DNA. The report concluded that the government’s first public-facing AI has not yet posed a threat to humanity or poetry, at least as far as is known, and said it was left wondering how much Trump knows about video games.