From the Complaint in Starbuck v. Google (not to be confused with the now-settled Starbuck v. Meta, which appears to have involved a different model and at least largely different hallucinations):
For nearly two years, one of the largest companies in the world—Google—has spread radioactive lies about Robby Starbuck through its AI products. When users submit queries to Google's AI platforms about Mr. Starbuck, they receive a "biography" that is outrageously false, whereby Mr. Starbuck is portrayed as (among other things) a child rapist, a serial sexual abuser convicted of assault, one who engages in financial exploitation, one who engages in "black ops" tactics such as illegal campaign finance practices, and a shooter—in short, as a monster. These lies continue today. [This is followed by extensive examples. -EV] …
In sum: over a period of two years and continuing, Google's AI tools systematically manufactured and published extremely damaging false claims about Mr. Starbuck, as well as fake 'sources' for its lies, despite periodically acknowledging that they were doing so. While Google and its executives were put on repeated notice and were aware of these falsehoods, they did nothing to prevent the continued defamation from occurring….
Earlier this year, Mr. Starbuck was approached by a woman who asked Mr. Starbuck if she could pose an "embarrassing question," which was: "is it true you had all those women accuse you?" As context, this woman told Mr. Starbuck that her "mom's group" had been discussing whether to support Mr. Starbuck's business causes, and one member of the group had pulled up a "biography" of Mr. Starbuck generated by Google AI, which claimed there were assault allegations against Mr. Starbuck….
