By Blake Brittain

(Reuters) -Google on Monday asked a Delaware state court to dismiss conservative influencer Robby Starbuck’s allegations that its artificial intelligence systems defamed him by falsely calling him epithets including a “child rapist,” “serial sexual abuser” and “shooter.”

The tech giant told the court that Starbuck purposely misused its AI tools to “hallucinate” the alleged defamatory statements and said his lawsuit “fails to name a single person who was actually misled.”

Starbuck’s attorney Krista Baughman responded in a statement that Google’s argument was “equal parts rank falsehood and victim blaming.”

“The hubris of publishing life-altering lies about an innocent individual and then blaming the individual for those reckless outputs should be deeply concerning to u

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