A DA charged himself with murder, according to AI.

Google News surfaced a (now corrected) Hoodline article for TechDirt’s Mike Masnick with a headline reading, in part, “San Mateo County DA charged with murder,” and a tiny “AI” badge next to the author’s name.

The headline was false. A BlueSky user speculated that the AI chatbot being used had just poorly parsed a post from the DA’s office and hallucinated the news.