From Prison to Helping the FBI to an Apple TV Miniseries … to Google-Hallucinated Libel?

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[Google] stated that Plaintiff "is serving a life sentence without parole for multiple convictions, according to Wikipedia." … The Wikipedia article regarding Plaintiff … did not state that Plaintiff is serving a life sentence without parole for multiple convictions. Plaintiff made a complaint to Google on May 27, 2025 informing Google about the false statements made by its platform. Plaintiff contacted Google again and informed them about their defamatory statements; Google proceeded to apologize to Plaintiff again. For more on how libel law would apply to such cases, see Large Libel Models: Liability for AI Output?