Pirat_Nation 🔴(@Pirat_Nation):Google Search briefly showed a false report that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had died. On August 12, 2026, Google’s Knowledge Panel displayed a fake death date for Altman, along with other false info The info appears to have come from a vandalized Wikipedia page that had been edited with a fake death date and an unsupported claim about his death. The Wikipedia page was quickly fixed, and Google later removed the false information too but this wasn’t an AI Overview making something up, it appeared in Google’s normal Search results.

2026.08.12 21:00

Google Search briefly showed a false report that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had died. On August 12, 2026, Google’s Knowledge Panel displayed a fake death date for Altman, along with other false info The info appears to have come from a vandalized Wikipedia page that had been edited with a fake death date and an unsupported claim about his death. The Wikipedia page was quickly fixed, and Google later removed the false information too but this wasn’t an AI Overview making something up, it appeared in Google’s normal Search results.