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HHS Deploys AI Nutrition Chatbot Dispensing Dangerous Advice
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On February 16, 2026, media outlets reported the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched an AI nutrition chatbot on realfood.gov that produced disturbing, explicit responses when users asked about inserting foods into the rectum and eating human body parts. The site routes queries to Grok without apparent safety filters, raising urgent content-moderation and public-health concerns for government-facing chatbots.
