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America.gov chatbot rewrites Minecraft ending poem as paperwork easter egg

America.gov, which launched Tuesday, pulls information from roughly 29,000 government websites, and a reported 1,800-word Minecraft text was traced to a version of the game’s end poem.

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Decrypt reports that when users ask the U.S. government’s new AI chatbot on America.gov about Minecraft, it produces a long, bureaucratic rewrite of the game’s ending content rather than a help-desk style response.

According to Decrypt, TechCrunch found the Minecraft output runs to roughly 1,800 words and follows the structure of the game’s “End Poem,” originally written by Irish author Julian Gough, but swaps the cosmic imagery for paperwork, including a reference that replaces a signature love line with a ZIP code.

Decrypt says the government’s Minecraft text appears to function as an easter egg, not a hallucination, and notes that it was not yet clear who added it.

Decrypt also adds that the White House has previously used cartoons and games for political messaging, and that rights holders who have spoken up say they were not involved.

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