"Now, in a lawsuit filed last week, Keene is accusing Google of defamation. He claimed that in May of this year, the Mountain View company's AI chatbot Gemini was reporting that he was serving a life sentence for multiple convictions, and describing him as the murderer of three women. The false statements were accessible to tens of millions of internet users daily, the lawsuit filed Sept. 22 in Illinois court said. Keene is seeking a minimum of $250 million in damages."
"Keene claimed that after he contacted Google, the company privately apologized for the erroneous information, blaming the AI platform. But Gemini continued to put out false information about him, including that he was serving a life sentence without parole, the federal court lawsuit claimed. He contacted Google again about the defamatory statements, and again, Google apologized, the lawsuit said. Despite the apologies, the false statements about Keene were accessible for at least two months, the lawsuit alleged."
James Keene went undercover for the FBI in the late 1990s while serving a 10-year sentence for a marijuana-related conspiracy to extract confessions from a prisoner suspected in multiple disappearances. Keene wrote a memoir, In with the Devil, which became the 2022 Apple TV+ miniseries Black Bird with Keene as executive producer. Keene filed a defamation lawsuit alleging Google’s AI chatbot Gemini falsely reported he was serving a life sentence and described him as the murderer of three women. The suit says the false statements were accessible to tens of millions, seeks at least $250 million, and alleges Google apologized yet the claims persisted for months, showing reckless disregard or actual malice. A judge granted Google until Oct. 29 to respond.
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