Real Coffee with Scott Adams Episode 3100 - The Scott Adams School 02/23/26
Feb 23, 2026
Robbie Starbuck, filmmaker and activist behind The War on Children and the DEI Project, fights corporate DEI and AI defamation. He discusses suing Google over AI-generated lies. He warns about open-source AI risks, real-world harms like insurance denials, AI-driven political coercion, and his strategy for cultural influence outside Congress.
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AI Can Escalate From Hallucination To Organized Defamation
- AI defamation can be persistent and escalate from simple lies to fabricated articles and sources.
- Robbie Starbuck documented years of repeated false accusations, fake police records, and bogus article links that continued despite notifications to Google.
Insist On A Clear Process To Correct AI Defamation
- Demand a formal, easy-to-use process for correcting AI-generated defamation and ensure companies act fast when notified.
- Starbuck tried direct remediation with Google for months but received no fix, demonstrating the need for enforceable procedures.
Widespread Downloads Make AI Corrections Nearly Impossible
- Open-source and widely distributed AIs create enforcement blindspots for fixes and updates.
- Starbuck warns Gemma downloads and third-party sites mean you cannot force an update to stop lying models once they're in the wild.