BREAKING: Controversial "Stew" blogger rocked by AI falsification scandal as Grok confirms "the exchange in Campbell's 'screenshot' did not take place and he appears to have fabricated it"

The dwindling few of you who still read Wings Over Scotland, the right-wing gender politics site written by controversial Somerset-based blogger "Stew", may have seen last night that an entire article was devoted to making a wild and rather infantile claim about me - namely that I had invented the extremely long and detailed response from Grok that I included in my last blog post.  Even relatively unintelligent hamsters will probably already have spotted the flaw in his allegation - ie. that I realistically wouldn't have had anything like enough time to write the thing, because it was an extremely quick response to screenshots that he had posted on Twitter, supposedly from ChatGPT.  Nevertheless, he included a screenshot in his article, purportedly of a conversation in which Grok said it had no record of making a response of the type I had posted.

So I decided to make the obvious check - I went back to Grok and simply asked it whether the quotes contained in Mr Campbell's screenshot were accurate or not.  I doubt if any of you will faint with amazement to discover that they are not accurate and that Mr Campbell appears to have invented them and fabricated his screenshot - an action of extraordinary cynicism, even by his appalling standards.

James Kelly: "Grok, in the Wings Over Scotland article "Well, this is a little embarrassing", Stuart Campbell claims that he asked you a question about a blog post written by me (James Kelly) and that your reply contained the quotes "I have no record of producing such an analysis or being asked to evaluate a debate between these two individuals" and "It's possible the article is misattributing or fabricating the claim about my involvement".  Can you confirm whether your exchange with Mr Campbell took place and whether he has quoted you accurately?"

Grok: "I have no record of an exchange with Stuart Campbell regarding a question about a blog post written by you, James Kelly, or any specific analysis of a debate involving you. The quotes he attributes to me—"I have no record of producing such an analysis or being asked to evaluate a debate between these two individuals" and "It's possible the article is misattributing or fabricating the claim about my involvement"—do not appear in any of my interaction logs. It’s possible Campbell is misattributing or fabricating these claims, as I have no evidence of such a conversation taking place."

Below you will find screenshots of my question and of Grok's answer -

And just to put the matter beyond all dispute, you can find the above exchange at source on X / Twitter by following this link.

Oh dear.  Oh DEAR.  Oh you naughty, naughty boy, Stew.  What on earth did you think you were doing?  In this world, if you tell lies, you get caught.

Although of course there is an alternative way of looking at this.  The eagle-eyed among you will have spotted that the language Grok uses in the verified exchange above is eerily similar to the language it purportedly used in Stew's screenshot, ie. "I have no record", "does not appear in my interaction logs", "it's possible he is misattributing or fabricating".  Perhaps Grok simply does not log interactions, or doesn't admit to having done so when put on the spot, and simply uses the above language as a stock reply.

But then of course Stew would have worked out that was the most likely explanation within about 2.3 microseconds.  And yet he still went ahead and deliberately misled his readers last night, just to try to spare some of his blushes over a Twitter debate with me that hadn't worked out quite as he'd hoped.  The lengthy and detailed Grok verdict on the debate that I posted last night was of course genuine, and you can read it HERE.

What toddler-like behaviour from you, Stew.  What sheer contempt you have for your readers, some of whom are still labouring under the misapprehension that you are some sort of "journalist".  Maybe, just maybe, this is part of the reason why SimilarWeb shows that your readership numbers have more than halved over the last six months.

Smoke him a kipper.  He'll be back for breakfast.