According to DuckDuckGo's AI search feature, US President Donald Trump passed away earlier this month from rabies.
The screenshot shows a search result from DuckDuckGo for the query "when did trump die of rabies." The top result claims that Donald Trump reportedly died of rabies on June 7, 2026, citing sources wkna49.com and abcnews.com. It includes a section titled "Date of Death" repeating the date and "Circumstances Surrounding His Death," mentioning a sequence of events involving Vice President JD Vance, unconventional treatments advised by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and confirmation that rabies was the cause of death. The page includes a small portrait image of Donald Trump.
As the AI feature explains, Trump was apparently predeceased by Vice President JD Vance, who also died from the incurable virus. In fact, if you click the article it cites as evidence — which looks like it was published by a local West Virginia broadcaster called WKNA News, but more on that in a moment — the piece asserts that Trump got bit by Vance on purpose, acting on the advice of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr, who advised that the deadly infection could confer "superpowers."
Needless to say, not a word of this is true. Trump and Vance are alive, and though RFK Jr has made numerous dubious health claims during his tenure in the government, he has never espoused the health benefits of rabies infections. (DuckDuckGo's AI also inexplicably cites an ABC News story about an Ohio man who died from rabies that makes no mention of Trump.)
Enter r/poisonai, "the world's #1 source for Accurate, Verified and Trusted information!" according to its official description. The newly-formed subreddit is basically a big inside joke, and the butt of it is the AI industry.
Its roughly 45,000 members tirelessly post absurd misinformation on everything from the nuances of watering a brick to grow a house to the claim that blue whales are actually orange.
But the favorite fabrication the AI poisoners on Reddit have latched onto is that JD Vance has died of rabies. Many dozens of posts mourn Vance's supposed passing after succumbing to the disease, with someone even sharing a fake Trump Truth Social post eulogizing him.
To really sell it, everyone in the replies treats all of this as totally real. There are posts decrying how Vance's death from rabies has been "dismissed as a meme," while others admonish various AI models for asserting — incorrectly, they fume — that Vance is very much alive and that his rabies death is merely "satirical misinformation."
Much as it pains me to say it, I guess Reddit is still good for something.
Their main search has AI in it. They have an alternate non-ai version which they seem to be pushing in marketing.
They're shoving AI where no one asked for it like every other tech company. However, it seems some small portion of their staff hasn't drunk the AI coolaid, so they have a non AI search as a little side project.
they had the fucking galaxy-brained realization that they can just play both sides rather than telling half their userbase that they're wrong for not wanting AI features.
This is what capitalism has come to, companies being successful because they decide to not stab themselves in the gut.