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Robby Starbuck has taken Google to court, accusing the company’s AI tools — including Bard, Gemma, and Gemini — of inventing grotesque criminal accusations about him out of thin air. According to his filing, the chatbots didn’t just make mistakes; they fabricated whole articles, fake police records, victim names, and convincing URLs that never existed, presenting lies as if they were verified news. This isn’t a minor glitch — it’s an attack on a person’s reputation carried out by a corporation whose products shape what millions of Americans see and believe.
The complaint says those fake outputs reached millions of users, with the AI even claiming specific exposure figures, and that strangers began confronting Starbuck with allegations that were pure invention. When a search or a chatbot answer can list a fabricated headline and a realistic-looking link, ordinary citizens have no practical way to know what’s real, and reputations can be shredded in an instant. This is not hypothetical; Starbuck says the fallout has been real and ongoing, and he’s asking a court to make Big Tech pay for the damage.
Starbuck is seeking at least fifteen million dollars in damages and filed the suit in Delaware state court on October 22, 2025, a clear signal that he believes this is more than an error — it’s corporate negligence or worse. He’s no stranger to fighting Silicon Valley: earlier this year he sued Meta, and that case was resolved with a settlement that included him advising the company on AI issues, an outcome that some saw as the only language these tech titans understand. Conservatives should pay attention: litigation and public pressure are proving effective where polite requests for fixes have failed.
Google has admitted that “hallucinations” — AI-generated falsehoods — are a known problem and says it’s working to reduce them, but admitting a problem and fixing accountability are two different things. When a company’s product invents child-rape and serial-abuser charges against a man who has never been accused of such crimes, the social cost is catastrophic and the legal liability should follow. The tech giants cannot be allowed to operate as unaccountable narrative factories that rewrite people’s lives with algorithmic fabrications.
On Glenn Beck’s program, Starbuck described how Gemini even claimed that Beck had reported on the fake allegations — an absurd recursion that shows how these systems will freely borrow real names to manufacture credibility. If an AI can pin phony accusations on a public figure and pretend other trusted media reported it, we’re no longer living in a world where independent verification protects the innocent. This should terrify every American who values due process and the presumption of innocence.
Make no mistake: this is a cultural and political problem, not a partisan quirk. Starbuck himself warned that if we don’t fix this, AI will define reputations, influence opinions, and even swing elections by shaping the narratives millions consume. Conservatives must demand transparency, verifiable provenance for AI assertions, and legal consequences when machines defame real people; otherwise the next victim could be any one of us.
The right answer is accountability, not forgiveness for Silicon Valley. Push your representatives to pass clear rules that hold platforms responsible for demonstrably false, harmful outputs, and support legal efforts like Starbuck’s that force the conversation into open court. This fight is about truth, fairness, and the basic American right to live and work without being erased by a machine designed by corporate elites — and conservatives should lead the charge to stop it.
