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AI fuels false claims after Charlie Kirk's death, CBS News analysis reveals
X's AI chatbot Grok, the AI-search engine Perplexity and Google's AI summaries all provided false information in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination.
CBS News identified 10 posts by Grok, X's AI chatbot, that misidentified the suspect before his identity, now known to be southern Utah resident Tyler Robinson, was released. Meanwhile, the AI-powered search engine Perplexity's X bot described the shooting as a "hypothetical scenario" in a since-deleted post, and suggested a White House statement on Kirk's death was fabricated. "The vast majority of the queries seeking information on this topic return high quality and accurate responses," a Google spokesperson told CBS News.
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