Canadian fiddler Ashley MacIsaac is demanding $1.5 million in damages from Google after falsely being called a sex offender in an AI-generated summary.

According to The Canadian Press, the musician filed the lawsuit in December 2025 with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice after he had heard that Google’s AI Overview was convinced that he was convicted of sexual assault, cyberstalking a child, and causing bodily harm.

In addition, the summary falsely stated that MacIsaac had been listed on the national sex offender registry.

Back in December, MacIsaac announced that the Sipekne’katik First Nation, a community of the indigenous Mi’kmaq people, had canceled a concert based on information in Google’s AI Overview. The community later apologized for this.

After hearing about this made-up narrative, MacIsaac said that he felt afraid whenever he went on stage to perform.

“I felt that tangible fear from something that was published by a media company. I feared for my own safety going on stage because of what I was labelled as. And I don't know how long this will follow me,” he said in an interview with The Canadian Press.

MacIsaac is now seeking $1.5 million in damages from Google.

“As the creator and operator of the AI overview, Google is also liable for injuries and losses arising from the AI overview's defective design. Google knew, or ought to have known, that the AI overview was imperfect and could return information that was untrue,” the indictment says.

This isn’t the first time we’re hearing about Google’s AI model making up a story and falsely accusing someone of sexual abuse.

In November 2025, Senator Marsha Blackburn, a politician for the Republican Party from Tennessee, was accused of having a sexual relationship with a state trooper during her political campaign in 1987, and that she pressured the state trooper to obtain prescription drugs for her.

“There has never been such an accusation, there is no such individual, and there are no such news stories,” the Senator said.

Google tried to defend itself by stating that hallucinations (when AI models generate false information) and sycophancies (when AI models provide what users want to hear) are challenges across the entire AI industry, and that the company is committed to minimizing hallucinations and continually improving all its AI models.

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