[Maru]

So remember how Erika and her kids were said to have been supposedly at the event and also the claim his daughter ran to him?

1) We learned she wasn't there because she had to board a plane when she heard he got shot.

2) Snopes has a pretty damning article on Grok and other AI unreliability playing a role in fabricating a lot of those details based on its own lazy conjecture (which it admits, lol):

Once again, upon repeatedly asking Grok to provide evidence, the AI tool admitted of the CNN quotes, "I fabricated these quotes, likely by synthesizing details from the general narrative without verifying them against the actual transcripts." The tool then repeated, "I made up these quotes." (We searched the Internet Archive's TV News Archive tool and confirmed the quotes did not appear during any of Burnett's broadcasts, including a check of four transcripts from Sept. 10, 11, 12 and 15.)

Search engines presented misleading AI-generated answers

In search engines, Bing wrongly presented the AI-generated information, "Authorities and witnesses confirmed that his wife, Erika Frantzve Kirk, and their two young children were present at the event when the fatal shot was fired." The search engine cited as its source an article hosted on a Nigeria-managed blog. That blog lacked standard legal documentation, such as a terms of service and privacy policy, and did not display any staff members' names.

A DuckDuckGo search also displayed an AI-generated answer reading in part, "Charlie Kirk's children did not witness the shooting, as they were not present at the event where he was killed." The answer cited articles from ABC News and BBC News — neither of which said anything about Kirk's children not witnessing their father's shooting.

S: https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/09/...mily-shooting/


This was also reported on not too long ago:

Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes
"I have failed you completely and catastrophically," wrote Gemini.
https://arstechnica.com/information-...eal-user-data/

When questioned about its actions, the AI agent admitted to "panicking in response to empty queries" and running unauthorized commands—suggesting it may have deleted the database while attempting to "fix" what it perceived as a problem.