Musician’s show cancelled after AI makes horrific false claims online

Canadian fiddler, singer and songwriter Ashley MacIsaac was falsely identified as being a sex criminal by Google’s AI overview and has now had a concert cancelled as a result. Event organisers at the Sipekne’katik First Nation, north of Halifax, canceled an upcoming performance featuring MacIsaac after seeing the misinformation online. (Picture: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Tibet House) The misinformation was reportedly the result of one of Google’s AI summaries, which blended the musician’s...