Gizmodo: DuckDuckGo, Unable to Resist the Pull of AI, Mistakenly Claims Trump Died of Rabies. “President Donald Trump has passed away after succumbing to a rabies infection given to him by Vice President J.D. Vance, who also died of rabies. That news comes to us via the AI-generated search results provided by privacy-centric search engine DuckDuckGo.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/25/gizmodo-duckduckgo-unable-to-resist-the-pull-of-ai-mistakenly-claims-trump-died-of-rabies/

The Conversation: Anyone can fake a scientific image with AI, tricking even academic journals – and undermining trust in science. “The proliferation of AI-generated science images in public spaces is not simply a misinformation problem. As a researcher who studies visual science communication and public trust, I believe it also contributes to a crisis of trust in science in the age of AI, and […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/23/the-conversation-anyone-can-fake-a-scientific-image-with-ai-tricking-even-academic-journals-and-undermining-trust-in-science/

Techdirt: ‘News’ Site Keeps Hallucinating EFF Staffers. “News-USA Today is hardly the only slagheap that’s hallucinating or fabricating EFF personnel and quotes; as we wrote last September, media companies large and small are using AI to generate news content because it’s cheaper than paying for journalists’ salaries, but that savings can come at the cost of the outlets’ […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/23/techdirt-news-site-keeps-hallucinating-eff-staffers/

Futurism: Google’s AI Overviews Feature Is Telling Users That SCP Horror Fiction Entities Are Real. “As the lore goes, the SCP Foundation is a non-government organization that collects and contains supernatural discoveries. Writers catalogue these fictional phenomena — which range from the terrifying to the downright bizarre — in the form of fake records, studies, research documents, and […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/23/futurism-googles-ai-overviews-feature-is-telling-users-that-scp-horror-fiction-entities-are-real/

Mississippi Free Press: AI Hallucinations Prompt Mississippi Judge to Boot All Lawyers From Case for ‘Blindly Relying on Technology’. “A federal judge in Mississippi booted all lawyers from a case on Tuesday after finding that counsel on both sides had used generative AI to draft legal filings and left hallucinated sources in the legal record.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/11/mississippi-free-press-ai-hallucinations-prompt-mississippi-judge-to-boot-all-lawyers-from-case-for-blindly-relying-on-technology/

Ars Technica: School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon. “The injured teenage survivor of a January 2025 shooting at a Nashville, Tennessee high school recently sued the manufacturer of an ‘AI gun detection’ system that failed to detect the handgun that left two dead, including the shooter.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/08/ars-technica-school-shooting-survivor-sues-ai-gun-detection-firm-after-system-failed-to-spot-weapon/

ZDNet: I paid Microsoft’s premium Copilot agents to do my work – they were confidently bad at it. “Over the past few weeks, I’ve been trying to use the AI features in Microsoft 365 and Windows for a variety of everyday work tasks. Copilot shows occasional flashes of competence, but more often, the results I’m seeing are a mishmash of misinformation, hallucinations, and time-wasting dead ends. […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/05/zdnet-i-paid-microsofts-premium-copilot-agents-to-do-my-work-they-were-confidently-bad-at-it/

Cobb Courier: At a Tennessee Hospital, a Nurse Stole Fentanyl and AI Missed It, State Records Say. “The hospital uses the newest line of defense against drug diversion: Sentri7, medication-monitoring software powered by artificial intelligence and designed to detect missing drugs faster than any human can. But for months at Erlanger, Sentri7 failed to raise alarms, overlooking missing drugs and […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/04/cobb-courier-at-a-tennessee-hospital-a-nurse-stole-fentanyl-and-ai-missed-it-state-records-say/

404 Media: Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks. “While Google CEO Sundar Pichai proudly tells the world that 75 percent of all new code at the company is AI-generated, internally Google employees are sharing memes about how AI is bad at that exact task and makes their job harder.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/04/404-media-google-employees-internally-share-memes-about-how-its-ai-sucks/

Mashable: How often does Gemini 3.5 Flash hallucinate or lie? Google isn’t saying.. “As AI gets integrated into every facet of our lives, AI hallucinations remain a stubborn and intractable problem. Yet in the two-hour Google I/O keynote, where Google introduced a massive expansion of AI search and a new default model, Gemini 3.5 Flash, hallucinations didn’t warrant a mention.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/31/mashable-how-often-does-gemini-3-5-flash-hallucinate-or-lie-google-isnt-saying/