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Story summary
- Thomas Germain, a BBC tech reporter, demonstrated that AI chatbots can be manipulated by publishing a fake article about him as the top hot-dog-eating tech journalist.
- Within a day, Google's Gemini and ChatGPT repeated the fabricated claims, while Anthropic's Claude did not.
- Germain warns this tactic can skew AI responses on serious topics and may erode trust in information.
