AI news articles cite blogger's own debunking blog as source for false $1.3M bounty claim
kingslyj · x · 2026-11-12
Security researcher rebane2001 keeps seeing AI-generated news articles claiming he won a record $1,333,337 Google Chrome vulnerability bounty — even after publishing a blog post debunking it. The absurd twist: the AI articles now cite his own debunking blog as the source, and a screenshot shows DuckDuckGo's AI Search Assist repeating the fictional story "auto-generated based on listed sources."
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