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Robby Starbuck sues Meta over what its AI said about him.

In between insisting that corporations need to end DEI efforts, Starbuck is suing because Meta AI “repeatedly published—and continues to publish—provably false and defamatory statements falsely accusing Starbuck of participating in the January 6th Capitol riot and having been arrested for a misdemeanor.”

Meta global policy head Joel Kaplan -- who said in January its products would have “no new fact checks and no fact checkers” -- apologized for the incorrect results. Does anyone have an idea about how the company could avoid this kind of problem?

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