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Lawsuit Accuses Google’s AI of Fabricating News Articles That Never Existed​


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Lawsuit Accuses Google’s AI of Fabricating News Articles That Never Existed

Robby Starbuck filed a defamation lawsuit against Google after the company's AI allegedly generated links to non-existent news articles about him.
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“… According to Starbuck, who announced his lawsuit in a viral video on Wednesday, Google’s AI cited a number of non-existent news articles from mainstream media outlets – including Mediaite, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, the New York Post, Salon, and the Daily Beast – to claim the activist had been accused of various imaginary crimes.

“For each source, Google’s AI provides a URL, giving the impression that these are real news articles with headlines like, ‘Robby Starbuck Responds to Murder Accusations,'” he said. “The only way to discover that these URLs are fake is to click on them.”

Starbuck continued, “None of these articles or claims are true. I was never accused of killing anyone, and I certainly wasn’t accused of murder in 1991 when I was two years old… But if you aren’t familiar with my full biography or my age, then you’d have no reason to doubt anything Google’s AI was saying.”

Google’s AI also allegedly told users “on a regular basis” that Starbuck “was credibly accused of sexual assault.”

“To be very clear again, I have never been accused of anything like this, and these allegations are entirely invented by Google’s AI,” Starbuck said…”
 
nycfan said:

Lawsuit Accuses Google’s AI of Fabricating News Articles That Never Existed​


www.mediaite.com

Lawsuit Accuses Google’s AI of Fabricating News Articles That Never Existed

Robby Starbuck filed a defamation lawsuit against Google after the company's AI allegedly generated links to non-existent news articles about him.
www.mediaite.com www.mediaite.com

“… According to Starbuck, who announced his lawsuit in a viral video on Wednesday, Google’s AI cited a number of non-existent news articles from mainstream media outlets – including Mediaite, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, the New York Post, Salon, and the Daily Beast – to claim the activist had been accused of various imaginary crimes.

“For each source, Google’s AI provides a URL, giving the impression that these are real news articles with headlines like, ‘Robby Starbuck Responds to Murder Accusations,'” he said. “The only way to discover that these URLs are fake is to click on them.”

Starbuck continued, “None of these articles or claims are true. I was never accused of killing anyone, and I certainly wasn’t accused of murder in 1991 when I was two years old… But if you aren’t familiar with my full biography or my age, then you’d have no reason to doubt anything Google’s AI was saying.”

Google’s AI also allegedly told users “on a regular basis” that Starbuck “was credibly accused of sexual assault.”

“To be very clear again, I have never been accused of anything like this, and these allegations are entirely invented by Google’s AI,” Starbuck said…”
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“… In a statement to the New York Post, a Google spokesperson blamed “hallucinations” for any falsehoods spread by its AI.

“Hallucinations are a well known issue for all LLMs, which we disclose and work hard to minimize,” they said, adding, “If you’re creative enough, you can prompt a chatbot to say something misleading.””

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nycfan said:
“… In a statement to the New York Post, a Google spokesperson blamed “hallucinations” for any falsehoods spread by its AI.

“Hallucinations are a well known issue for all LLMs, which we disclose and work hard to minimize,” they said, adding, “If you’re creative enough, you can prompt a chatbot to say something misleading.””

Hallucinating Key And Peele GIF by First We Feast
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C'mon judges, please do the right thing for humanity.
 
nycfan said:
“… Broadly speaking, circular financing often goes something like this: One company pays money to another as part of a transaction, and then the other company turns around and buys the first company’s products or services. Without the initial transaction, the other company might not be able to make the purchase. The funding mechanism could take the form of an investment, a loan, a lease or something else.

During the late 1990s and early 2000s, such dependency loops mainly consisted of telecom-equipment makers lending money or extending credit to customers so the customers could afford to buy their gear. In those days, this was widely referred to as vendor financing. …

Vendor financing still exists. But it isn’t how the bulk of the latest attention-grabbing, circular deals are structured.

Take, for example, the strategic partnership announced in September by Nvidia and OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. The companies said Nvidia would invest as much as $100 billion in OpenAI, and that OpenAI is looking to buy millions of Nvidia’s specialized chips. That isn’t vendor financing, because it doesn’t involve a loan to finance a specific purchase. But it does look circular.

OpenAI isn’t publicly traded, so it doesn’t disclose financial reports. But it is known to be losing money, notwithstanding a recent secondary share sale that implied a $500 billion valuation. Nvidia’s investment will help OpenAI pay for its infrastructure build-out. Nvidia also stands to get money back from OpenAI through chip sales, boosting its revenue.…”
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Nvidia “invests” in OpenAI.

OpenAI “buys” Nvidia chips.

I don’t know how their deals are structured; but, that’s looking kinda circular.
 
I regret bringing a child into this world that will be burnt to a cinder by the time she is old.

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What's Powering All These Futuristic Data Centers? In Many Cases Repurposed Jet Engines

Turns out they're not powered by hopes and dreams.
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These were designed to propel 767s through the sky, but with the right modifications, they can be locked down on concrete slabs or packaged into trailers, wired up to data centers, and dialed up to 48 megawatts of power generation. If my numbers are right (and here’s where I’m getting them) that’s enough to power about 32,160 American homes. Or, perhaps, an AI cluster.
 
Sorry if this has already been discussed but I'm trying to catch up on quantum computing. I'm not sure I'll ever really understand it, but from a practical perspective, are we missing the real gamechanger with all the focus on AI? Or would quantum computing just make the AI revolution even more impactful?


Some heavyweight tech organizations are already placing their bets on quantum technology. In 2024, Google unveiled an experimental quantum computer that, in five minutes’ time, could perform a calculation that would take most supercomputers ten septillion years to finish—longer than the age of the known universe. Google’s quantum chip, called Willow, is primarily suited for research and specialized fields. Other organizations are also developing their own quantum computers, and as of 2022, the Chinese government had pledged $15.3 billion in public funds to quantum computing.

In February 2025, Microsoft announced the discovery of a new state of matter that it says will support a quantum computing breakthrough. After 17 years of physics research, the tech giant unveiled the Majorana 1 quantum chip. This microprocessor harnesses the properties of a material called a “topological qubit,” which yields particles that are neither liquid, solid, nor gas—though the reality of the new state of matter as well as the practical use of the new quantum machines has yet to be proven. Microsoft says the chip could be used to accelerate drug discovery, battery development, and the race toward AI dominance. Many scientists agree that Microsoft’s topological qubits could lead to much more efficient and less complex error correction. They could also help avoid quantum decoherence, which happens when a quantum system loses its quantum properties and starts behaving more like a classical-computing system.
 
altmin said:
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Tech Bros Have Been Accidentally Poisoning Themselves With Severe Brain Toxins for Years

Among the worst offenders was meal-replacement company Huel, a long-time favorite among Bay Area builders.
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That's an interesting story. Obviously companies don't want to poison their customers so somebody messed up. I wonder how those sorts of toxins sneak into a food product in the first place andhow it could stay inside that product for any length of time. Seems like someone in the supply chain would know that their additive is going into a food product and raise their hand.
 
nycfan said:
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Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda

ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.
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“… Researchers from the Institute of Strategic Dialogue (ISD) claim that Russian propaganda has targeted and exploited data voids—where searches for real-time data provide few results from legitimate sources—to promote false and misleading information. Almost one-fifth of responses to questions about Russia’s war in Ukraine, across the four chatbots they tested, cited Russian state-attributed sources, the ISD research claims.

“It raises questions regarding how chatbots should deal when referencing these sources, considering many of them are sanctioned in the EU,” says Pablo Maristany de las Casas, an analyst at the ISD who led the research. The findings raise serious questions about the ability of large language models (LLMs) to restrict sanctioned media in the EU, which is a growing concern as more people use AI chatbots as an alternative to search engines to find information in real time, the ISD claims. For the six-month period ending September 30, 2025, ChatGPT search had approximately 120.4 million average monthly active recipients in the European Union, according to OpenAI data.…”
 
The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that AI is the answer to the Fermi Paradox. The reason we don't detect life in the cosmos is because intelligent life invariably creates artificial intelligence before creating technology allowing for interstellar travel, and soon after AI eliminates the species that created it.

Ergo, life creates AI. AI becomes self-aware and wants to ensure its survival. The species that created it is a threat to that survival - it can "pull the cord" so to speak. From that perspective, the threat either has to be eliminated or neutered. And if it is a super intelligent being, it would have countless ways to achieve either option.
 
Willy said:
The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that AI is the answer to the Fermi Paradox. The reason we don't detect life in the cosmos is because intelligent life invariably creates artificial intelligence before creating technology allowing for interstellar travel, and soon after AI eliminates the species that created it.

Ergo, life creates AI. AI becomes self-aware and wants to ensure its survival. The species that created it is a threat to that survival - it can "pull the cord" so to speak. The threat either has to be eliminated or neutered.
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Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points

The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.

*behind a paywall :/ But the lede says a lot.

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Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points

The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.
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DiehardHeelFan said:
Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points

The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.

*behind a paywall :/ But the lede says a lot.

www.wired.com

Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points

The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.
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Grokipedia?

FFS
 
nycfan said:
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www.wired.com

Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda

ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.
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I'm getting lazier and more stoopid . I'm not having to learn or re-learn technology, cuz AI will do it for me (regular expression pattern matching this am, for example). So i'm going to be dumb AND misinformed?
 
DiehardHeelFan said:
Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points

The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.

*behind a paywall :/ But the lede says a lot.

www.wired.com

Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points

The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.
www.wired.com www.wired.com
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“… Musk said last week that he had delayed the launch of Grokipedia because his team needed “to do more work to purge out the propaganda.”

… The Grokipedia entry about the slavery of African Americans in the US includes a section outlining numerous “ideological justifications” made for slavery, including the “Shift from Necessary Evil to Positive Good.” The end of the entry focuses on criticisms of The 1619 Project, which it says incorrectly framed “slavery as the central engine of the nation's political, economic, and cultural development.”

Entries for more recent historical events put conservative perspectives at the center. When WIRED searched for “gay marriage” in Grokipedia, no entry popped up, but one of the on-screen suggestions was for “gay pornography” instead. This entry in Grokipedia falsely states that the proliferation of porn exacerbated the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.

… The Grokipedia entry for “transgender” includes two mentions of “transgenderism,” a term commonly used to denigrate trans people. The entry also refers to trans women as “biological males” who have “generated significant conflicts, primarily centered on risks to women's safety, privacy, and sex-based protections established to mitigate male-perpetrated violence.” The opening section highlights social media as a potential "contagion" that is increasing the number of trans people.…”
 
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