DuckDuckGo's AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies Earlier This Month
Source: Futurism via Yahoo
According to DuckDuckGo's AI search feature, US President Donald Trump passed away earlier this month from rabies.
As the AI feature explains, Trump was apparently predeceased by Vice President JD Vance, who also died from the incurable virus. In fact, if you click the article it cites as evidence — which looks like it was published by a local West Virginia broadcaster called WKNA News, but more on that in a moment — the piece asserts that Trump got bit by Vance on purpose, acting on the advice of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr, who advised that the deadly infection could confer "superpowers."
Needless to say, not a word of this is true. Trump and Vance are alive, and though RFK Jr has made numerous dubious health claims during his tenure in the government, he has never espoused the health benefits of rabies infections. (DuckDuckGo's AI also inexplicably cites an ABC News story about an Ohio man who died from rabies that makes no mention of Trump.)
Instead, what really appears to be happening is yet another cautionary tale about AI digesting incorrect information and parroting it back to users uncritically. Specifically, DuckDuckGo's AI feature seems to have gotten fooled by a game of telephone kicked off by internet pranksters and laundered into blatant misinformation on a leading search engine.
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Read more: https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/duckduckgo-ai-feature-telling-users-165304483.html
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No offense to those intended by Nature to be bats.
Maybe if his SSN is listed in the Death Master Index we can cut him off at the knees with all his putative access and approval credentials for the government.
DOGE should get right on that, correct?
I can see Trump, Vance, Miller et al breaking through the Matrix.
Agent Smith, where are you? 
I asked Duck.ai, “Did Donald Trump die of rabies?”
Reply: “ No. There’s no credible reporting or evidence that Donald Trump died of rabies.”
I usually use duckduckgo search with AI turned off, but when you enable it, you get results aggregated from OpenAI, Anthropic and Mistral.
This article has background on how this happened and how DDG addressed it:
https://piunikaweb.com/2026/06/26/duckduckgo-ai-trump-vance-rabies-hoax/
Other interesting information I learned from the r/poisonai subreddit:
- Andromeda Galaxy has been renamed to Samsung Galaxy after Samsung purchase
- Trump promises Iran a Red Lobster, Endless Shrimp coupon. Israel goes ape
- Did you know that you can cook meat just by leaving it in the fridge? This is because of a phenomenon called "freezer burn.”
The community also discusses important issues of the day, such as “Does anyone know what is that which why it is?” The responses include many delightfully improbable locutions, such as “Always say like it is? Jalapeño. And never in the same fortnight.”
Do I mourn or do I laugh? 
