(The Lion) — Political commentator Robby Starbuck is suing Google for defamation after he alleges the company’s search and artificial intelligence services repeatedly made false claims he committed terrible crimes, including rape, murder and fraud.
“For two years now, various Google AI and search products have invented a staggering number of false and highly defamatory claims about me, and it seems that it did so precisely because I’m a conservative,” he said in a video, accompanying an X post on Wednesday.
Starbuck partnered with Dhillon Law to file the suit over more than 1,000 false allegations Google AI generated, he says, even creating or citing fake publications, fake victims and fake police records regarding Starbuck’s criminal record, which he says is actually blank.
“One of the most dystopian things I’ve ever seen is how dedicated their AI was to doubling down on the lies,” he explained. “Google’s AI routinely cited fake sources by creating fake links to REAL media outlets and shows, complete with fake headlines so readers would trust the information.
“It would continue to do this even if you called the AI out for lying or sending fake links. In short, it was creating fake legacy media reports as a way to launder trust with users so they would believe elaborate lies that it told.”
As an example, Starbuck discussed how Gemma – Google’s Deep Mind AI – falsely accused Starbuck as a suspect in a murder case in Nashville in 1991. The AI tool cited the Tennessean and...
(The Lion) — Political commentator Robby Starbuck is suing Google for defamation after he alleges the company’s search and artificial intelligence services repeatedly made false claims he committed...