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U.S. President Donald Trump announced the launch of America.gov, a conversational interface intended to simplify access to government information and services, with Google and the Gemini model participating, and Grok also being used, according to a government official. The project raises questions about the risks of hallucinations when users rely on model answers for visas, taxes, and benefits.
Huntress detected campaigns that exploited sharing features, public content, and paid advertisements on platforms such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok to deceive users into downloading malware. The danger is that the malicious content appears within domains bearing the names of trusted platforms, reducing the usual warning indicators.