2026-09-20T23:22:28.549Z
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DuckDuckGo Search Assist Reportedly Falsely Claimed Donald Trump and JD Vance Died of Rabies
DuckDuckGo's Search Assist reportedly produced an answer stating that Donald Trump and JD Vance had died of rabies and repeated fabricated details involving Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The answer cited a false WKNA49 article alongside an unrelated ABC News report. Reporting linked the episode to adversarial web content associated with r/poisonai. DuckDuckGo said Search Assist had been "deliberately tricked," fixed the result, and planned updates.
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Reported occurrence date: 2026-06-25T00:00:00.000Z
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- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2026-06-25T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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