Search engines and AI‑augmented indexing can fabricate specifics about people's lives—events attended, affiliations, quotes—and surface them as if verified. Those spurious claims can spread through citation cascades and be treated as established facts by other outlets or readers.
— This matters because reputational falsehoods generated or amplified by major search products can distort public debate, harm individuals, and corrode trust in online records and journalism.
Steve Sailer
2026.02.28
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Steve Sailer reports Google returned results claiming he attended Bohemian Grove twice despite him denying it; he also notes circulating membership lists that compound uncertainty about provenance.
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