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Elton Jones

DuckDuckGo's AI falsely claimed Donald Trump died of rabies — and it highlights a bigger AI problem

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Google Search is increasingly filled with AI-generated answers, whether you asked for them or not. Even privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo now offers its own AI chatbot alongside traditional search results.

Futurism first reported that the search engine falsely claimed that President Donald Trump had died of rabies — a striking example of AI hallucination. But the mistake wasn't entirely the chatbot's fault. It exposed a much bigger problem with how AI systems gather and repeat information from the web.

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