DuckDuckGo's AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies (futurism.com)

Yes it was a hoax better explained IMO at [1] that intended to poison the parrots ... and given there's a result even for a short time, it shows the idea that giving up on human vetted information for AI can come with consequences.

It's funny for the story is almost believable ...

Obviously LLMs will start scraping r/poisonai for correlation purposes.

[1] https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ai-hoax-political-figures-rabies-1...

The only criterion is whether it makes a good story. Would you watch that, or change the channel?

And yet humans reporting credulously on falsehoods is simply considered background noise. "Eating the dogs and cats", "we have a deal with Iran" actually causing markets to behave like it's true.

This is all to distract from the fact that J.D. Vance did die from rabies.

Well, it's telling the truth.