Grok Lite's Gibberish Points to Decoding-Layer Failure, Not a Simple Crash

Grok Lite has emitted syntactically structured but semantically empty text to Grok.com users since August 19. One response: "match it without and your they and two for planets can practical and often cheese…" Outputs persisted across refreshes for some, indicating a decoding or sampling-layer failure rather than client-side corruption. xAI called it "a rare temporary generation glitch" while status.x.ai logged no incident.