08:37 AM EDT, 10/22/2025 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with Google's ( GOOG ) response in the third paragraph.)

Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Google ( GOOG ) faces a defamation lawsuit from rightwing American activist Robby Starbuck over allegations that its artificial intelligence tools incorrectly connected him to sexual assault claims and to a white nationalist, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing court filings.

Starbuck seeks more than $15 million in damages, the report said.

A Google ( GOOG ) spokesman said that the company will review the complaint after it receives it and that many of the claims relate to inaccuracies provided by Google's ( GOOG ) AI tool Bard in 2023, which have since been corrected. "Hallucinations are a well known issue for all large language models, which we disclose and work hard to minimize. But as everyone knows, if you're creative enough, you can prompt a chatbot to say something misleading," he said, in response to an inquiry from MT Newswires.

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