Lawsuit Accuses Google’s AI of Fabricating News Articles That Never Existed
Charlie Nash Oct 22nd, 2025, 9:29 pm
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Conservative activist Robby Starbuck filed a defamation lawsuit against Google on Wednesday after the company’s AI allegedly generated links to non-existent news articles falsely claiming he had been accused of sexual assault and other crimes.
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, , , the , Salon, and the Daily Beast – to claim the activist had been accused of various imaginary crimes.
In one case, according to Starbuck, Google’s AI claimed he had been a “person of interest” in a murder case when he