Neil Diamond was dead on Google for like 45 minutes yesterday.
  • 485 points BigToober69

    Glad he got better.

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    62 points -Cool_Ethan-

    he won't even talk about the Afterlife

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    27 points jim45804

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    15 points DudesworthMannington

    A newt

    https://i.redd.it/zzxv8fqcj19g1.gif

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    15 points Archz714

    He probably just drank some Gatorade

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    4 points Frosty-Improvement-8

    Just one of those flesh wounds you can walk off.

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  • 104 points Beuys_Coyote

    So like…how did you run across this? So random 😅

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    89 points TheyMadeMeInAHurry

    I saw a trailer for that new movie about him and Googled to see if he was still alive. 😄😄😄

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    15 points carlos2127

    Story checks out

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    20 points RondiMarco

    The other day Jake Paul also died for some minutes according to Google. It was probably their AI seeing all the "Jake Paul was obliterated" articles and thought he had died. Probably something similar happened here

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    4 points Beuys_Coyote

    Interesting! Good point.

    And thanks for the details. OP 😅 You caught an interesting error.

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  • 23 points trickmirrorball

    This guy is great and has succeeded in spite of severe peyronie’s disease.

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    8 points SidewalkSupervisor

    wait... what

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    6 points carlos2127

    Don't look it up. I did and I regret it.

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    7 points ARSEHOLE_HUNTER

    Mistakes have been made, and of course my immediate instinct was to go to google images lol

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    3 points trickmirrorball

    You know what.

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  • 20 points gittlebass

    they transferred him to a better website and he was upgraded to alive

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  • 31 points RavelsPuppet

    Read Neil Gaiman and felt happy for a sec

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    10 points WhatWouldRalphDo

    neil gaiman should be dead tbh

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  • 12 points Character_Cupcake856

    I am I said..

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  • 3 points Derbster_3434

    Hello again

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  • 3 points QaddafiDuck01

    Hopefully it was my old boss with the same name. He was a right cunt.

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  • 3 points Hartleyb1983

    He's getting a lot of publicity because of it even though I'm sure it's traumatic as hell.

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  • 3 points Comprehensive-Mix510

    I thought he had died years ago. Maybe that was Neil Sedaka.

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    2 points BrownEyedBoy06

    Nope. He's still alive too.

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    2 points Comprehensive-Mix510

    Paul Anka then.

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    2 points BrownEyedBoy06

    He's also alive!

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    2 points Comprehensive-Mix510

    My last guess: Tom Jones.

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    2 points BrownEyedBoy06

    Alive and well.

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    1 points realdappermuis

    Maybe Leonard Cohen (2019)

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  • 3 points BallSackShredder900

    Bro used a totem of undying😭

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  • 2 points TheGreedyBat

    Mix up with Chris Rea perhaps?

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  • 2 points thatgerhard

    Isnt there a movie coming out around him soon, seems convenient

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  • 4 points 2cats2hats

    It fucked up on a prominent Canadian musician too. I hope he sues. https://www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/article/maritime-musician-ashley-macisaac-faces-fallout-after-mistaken-identity-case/

    This AI shit has to stop, and there's fuck all we lowly peasants can do.

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    10 points djac13

    Except, and hear me out, confirm with other sources. Like they should have done in the Ashley MacIsaac case.

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    -1 points 2cats2hats

    idk how AI is to confirm. I do know AI has to go away. :)

    EDIT: Go away troll.

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    4 points djac13

    Don't take anything from AI at face value if you didn't already. Look it up on other credible sources.

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    2 points OriginalBlackberry89

    Unfortunately, that's never going to happen.. unless we all go away too, which seems very plausible sometimes. 

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    1 points Comfortable-Yak-6599

    How was he harmed by this, do you think he had an existential crisis on whether he was actually dead and was emotionally scarred. He probably just got some phone calls and talked to people he hasn't in a while.

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    3 points Certain-Criticism-51

    Well, the artist in the link had a gig cancelled bc AI said he was a sex abuser, which he is NOT.

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    1 points 2cats2hats
    1. My comment is not about Neil Diamond...although he should sue too.

    2. Companies this powerful spewing disinformation that can potentially destroy a career is not ok.

    3. How would you feel if a company like google smeared you and destroyed your reputation over sex crime accusations with AI? Nah, don't answer I don't need it.

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  • 1 points ClamSlamwhich

    Where it began

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  • 1 points ResponsibilityFew938

    The story of my life.

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  • 1 points PigeonsOnParade

    A Google alert told me the Dodgers lost the world series the morning of the last game.  Tech is glitching.

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  • 1 points BrownEyedBoy06

    What's weirder? I was just talking about Neil Diamond today.

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  • 1 points GrouchyLongBottom

    He just had to go for a walk.

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  • 1 points stonedfish

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  • 1 points Triggered-cupcake

    I didn’t even know he was sick!

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  • 1 points Select-Team-6863

    Got 3 fake celebrity deaths today for HGTV hosts.

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  • 1 points So-Called_Lunatic

    Today...

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  • 1 points DoughNotDoit

    guess he got 1 last Phoenix down

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  • 1 points the_red_scimitar

    And now he's alive! A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!!!

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  • 0 points TDSOTM1

    Jesus?

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