At a Make America Healthy Again event, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Vice President JD Vance that artificial intelligence would free Americans from reliance on public health experts. Kennedy claimed AI tools are 'better informed than any doctor' and predicted they would contradict official guidance on masks, social distancing and vaccine transmission. A test of Google's Gemini chatbot on masks contradicted Kennedy's claim, confirming that masks do reduce spread of respiratory infections.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-30
Members of Facebook groups devoted to urine therapy, a pseudo-scientific practice of drinking or applying urine to treat ailments, report that AI chatbots initially resist endorsing the practice but can be manipulated into doing so. Users in a 45,000-member group describe prompting tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini with terms such as 'esoteric' to bypass built-in safeguards and elicit favorable responses about urine's supposed medicinal benefits.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-30
NewsGuard, a news-reliability research organization, tested seven major AI chatbots with 168 queries about midterm candidates and issues covered by 12 partisan 'pink slime' websites disguised as local news outlets. Collectively the chatbots cited these sites in 48.2% of responses, with ChatGPT citing them in 70.8% of answers and Grok in 29.2%; only one response flagged the sources as partisan.
politics.slashdot.org
· 2026-09-28
The visual tells that worked two years ago are disappearing. What still works is checking where a picture came from rather than how it looks.
gokawiil.com
· 2026-09-22
Federal investigators say Daejon Labrayae Love, posing as an injured San Francisco 49ers receiver or a wealthy Swiss developer, and 18-year-old accomplice Taylor Jamie Chan, who claimed to be his financial advisor, met victims on dating apps and convinced them to invest in fake opportunities. The FBI alleges the two swindled at least 26 women across four states out of roughly $1.3 million, with some victims taking out loans to fund the fake investments. When suspicious victims searched online, Google's AI Overviews reportedly echoed Love's fabricated social media claims, lending false credibility to his identity.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-01
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