When AI Starts Inventing Your Biography

 When AI Starts Inventing Your Biography: My Experience With a False Cullen Commission Summary

Today I searched my own name together with the Cullen Commission on

Screenshot of AI 🤥 lying

Google and was shocked by what appeared in an AI-generated summary.

The summary claimed I was:

• an “anti-money laundering activist,”
• a “prominent citizen advocate,”
• and that I “attended” Cullen Commission hearings.

That is simply not true.

I have written blog posts and shared public information about the Cullen Commission and related issues in British Columbia, including casinos, housing, money laundering concerns, and government oversight. Like many British Columbians, I followed the inquiry with interest because the issues affect our communities and economy.

But I never attended hearings as an official participant or advocate.

What concerns me is how confidently the AI presented assumptions as facts.

This is a growing problem online.

Artificial intelligence systems are now scraping blogs, social media, articles, and public discussions, then combining fragments into polished biographies that may sound authoritative but contain invented details. Once these summaries appear in search engines, other systems may repeat them, causing misinformation to spread quickly.

The strange part is that the wording almost sounded like a professionally written profile: “grassroots engagement,” “bridging the gap,” “prominent advocate.”

It reads impressively, but parts were fabricated.

This raises larger questions:

• Who is accountable when AI creates false information about real people?
• How many ordinary people already have inaccurate AI-generated profiles online?
• What happens when search engines begin rewriting people’s identities?
• How do we correct misinformation once AI systems start copying each other?

Ironically, the Cullen Commission itself dealt with transparency, accountability, oversight, and hidden systems operating without enough scrutiny.

Now we may be entering a new era where AI-generated information systems also require public accountability and oversight.

As someone who has blogged independently for many years, I believe it is important to document these experiences publicly. If AI systems are going to summarize people’s lives and work, accuracy matters.

The internet should not become a place where algorithms quietly invent biographies for real human beings.

— Tina Winterlik / Zipolita