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Trump did not die of rabies (yet)

2026-06-25 22:50:27.876388+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

DuckDuckGo, Unable to Resist the Pull of AI, Mistakenly Claims Trump Died of Rabies.

How exactly DuckDuckGo’s search results came to this conclusion is a bit convoluted, but a familiar enough concept at this juncture for anyone exposed to AI-powered search. It’s one part AI doing a bad job of aggregating information from multiple sources and hallucinating connections and, as Futurism notes, one part coordinated attack by anti-AI activists. JD Vance’s rabies-related death has become a favorite bit of Redditors on the subreddit r/poisonai, which aims to generate misinformation that gets fed uncritically into AI models. Seems they’ve succeeded at that goal.

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