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

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DuckDuckGo, which built its brand as an alternative to AI-driven search, proved unable to resist the trend. According to io9, the search engine's new AI features generated a strikingly false result: that Donald Trump died of rabies. The error illustrates the risks of hastily bolting language models into existing platforms—features that can sound authoritative to users but generate confident falsehoods without proper oversight.

Source: https://gizmodo.com/duckduckgo-unable-to-resist-the-pull-...

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