ICYMI - The AI Admitted It Lied About Its Own Search Results

AI search results feel authoritative right up until someone pushes back. Tech analyst Carmi Levy breaks down why so much of what AI serves up is quietly shaped by listicles, sales tactics, and content that was never meant to be trusted in the first place. Carmi explains why legitimate websites are increasingly blocking AI crawlers, leaving AI models to train more and more on lower quality sources, some of it written by other AI. That closed loop is degrading the answers people rely on every day, and most people never click through to check where the information actually came from. There's also the story of an AI search that got caught in a lie about advertiser influence, and only admitted it after being challenged repeatedly. Topics: AI misinformation, AI search results, listicles SEO, data scraping, AI hallucination Originally aired on 2026-08-17