Google could be in serious hot water after it reportedly programmed its artificial intelligence to make false accusations against filmmaker and podcast host Robby Starbuck.
Starbuck announced on X Oct. 22 that he is suing Google, accusing the company’s Bard, Gemini and Gemma AI of generating defamatory statements against him. He accused the AI bots of providing “fake criminal allegations including sexual assault, child rape, abuse, fraud, stalking, drug charges, and even saying I was in Epstein’s flight logs.” These claims are “100% fake. All generated by Google’s AI,” he said. "I have ZERO criminal record or allegations.”
Now Starbuck, with the legal representation of the Dhillon Law Group, is taking the tech giant to court.
MRC Vice President for Free Speech Dan Schneider said via X that Starbuck was “100% right,” clarifying that the smears against the popular host may stem from internal manipulation.
“AI is not some magical brain working independently. It is programmed by human beings. In this case, by radicals @Google,” Schneider said, before pointing at Google CEO Sundar Pichai. “They have an agenda. It is intentional. Google and @sundarpichai could stop it in 2 seconds (like when Sundar stopped generating images of George Washington as a black woman). But Google's minions hate Robby with a white hot fury, like they hate most conservatives. They are destroying America.”
Schneider referred to Gemini’s early scandal when the AI was programmed to generate “diverse” but highly inaccurate images of historical figures, including female popes and black Founding Fathers.
Starbuck wrote in the X post that Google’s AI admitted that he “was targeted because of my political views.” Furthermore, he accused Google executives of knowing about the allegedly defamatory statements programmed into the AI for two years because he and his “lawyers sent cease and desist letters multiple times.”
Starbuck claimed that the AI not only invented criminal allegations, but also police, therapy and court records, along with fake statements denouncing Starbuck. These statements were attributed to such prominent figures as President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance. The AI “cited fake sources by creating fake links to REAL media outlets and shows, complete with fake headlines so readers would trust the information,” Starbuck accused.
Starbuck wrote that he believes this case is not just about him, but about other individuals who could also find themselves defamed by woke companies’ AI.
This is not the first time that Google AI has triggered a lawsuit for defamation. In June, Minnesota solar company Wolf River Electric sued Google for defamation after the Google search engine’s “AI overview” accused the company of facing a suit from the state’s Attorney General Keith Ellison.
Google has also faced numerous other lawsuits, including an anti-monopoly suit filed by its rival Rumble and an antitrust suit brought by Epic Games, in which Google lost another appeal this month. Additionally, the Justice Department won remedies against Google in September for violations of antitrust laws.
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