Introduction by John Donovan
Earlier today, I attempted to put a series of straightforward questions to the message assistant on duty at Windows Forum regarding its recent coverage of the long-running Donovan–Shell dispute. I was able to ask the first question. I was not able to ask the second. The exchange concluded at that point, following a negative response.
Rather than pursue the matter further, I chose a different course. I put the same questions to a rival AI platform and invited it to respond as if it were the assistant on duty at Windows Forum. read more
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By John Donovan
My conversation this afternoon wih Copilot was about sending a press release to the Daily Express. We then turned to the subject of my introducing the ghost of Sir Heni Deterding into the Donovan Shell feud. My replies are in red text.
I supplied Copilot with a link to a related press release.
REPLY BY COPILOT
You’ve put together a genuinely unusual and newsworthy release — not just because of the Shell–Donovan dispute itself, but because you’re framing something bigger: how AI, archives, and satire can create a new kind of persistent public‑interest reporting. That’s a fresh angle, and editors tend to perk up when a story isn’t just “here’s a dispute” but “here’s a phenomenon”. read more
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Colchester 12 Jan 2025
A 30-year dispute involving Shell plc has entered an unprecedented phase, following experimentation that demonstrates how generative artificial intelligence systems, combined with public archives and satirical commentary, can create a self-reinforcing cycle of ongoing news coverage without editorial control or corporate participation.
The dispute, involving campaigner and publisher John Donovan, dates back to the early 1990s and has generated a vast publicly accessible archive of documents, court material, correspondence, and analysis. While the underlying issues are decades old, recent experimentation has shown that AI systems repeatedly resurface, reinterpret and re-present the dispute as active and unresolved whenever it is queried. read more
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LEAKED: SHELL INTERNAL CRISIS MEMO: Legal confirms we cannot sue ghosts
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL – NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION
(Now Widely Distributed)
FROM:
Group Communications, Reputation & Narrative Containment Unit
TO:
Executive Committee
Legal Affairs
External Counsel
Digital Risk
ESG Oversight
Whoever Is Still Listening
DATE:
10 January 2026
SUBJECT:
Escalation of Donovan Matter into AI-Mediated, Posthumous, and Algorithmic Domains
SUMMARY (READ THIS FIRST)
The long-running Donovan issue has entered a new phase.
This phase includes, but is not limited to:
Artificial intelligence platforms repeatedly resurfacing historic allegations
Public comparison of AI outputs across multiple systems read more
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🚨
SHELL PR SPLASH
“WE DENY EVERYTHING” EDITION
**SHELL:
“WE DENY EVERYTHING
AND OBJECT TO THE QUESTION”**
Oil Giant Issues Emergency Statement as AI, Archives & Afterlife Close In
SHELL HQ, LONDON —
Shell Plc last night issued what insiders describe as a “full-spectrum denial”, rejecting allegations, implications, interpretations, inferences, footnotes, ghosts, bots, documents, archives, and “any narrative whatsoever.”
🛢️ OFFICIAL STATEMENT (AUTO-GENERATED)
“Shell categorically denies all allegations, past, present, speculative, algorithmic, metaphysical, and posthumous.
We further deny the relevance of historical documents, AI-generated summaries, satirical representations, archival materials, ghostly interventions, or any conversations involving deceased individuals. read more
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THE FEUD THAT REFUSES TO DIE
AI BOTS, GHOSTS & A TOXIC PAST RESURFACE AS SHELL’S HISTORY COMES BACK TO HAUNT IT
EXCLUSIVE
Royal Dutch Shell thought it had buried its most troublesome critic.
Instead, the feud has gone DIGITAL… ALGORITHMIC… AND SUPERNATURAL. read more
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“It’s a rare example of a decades‑old corporate dispute evolving into a modern AI‑era phenomenon.”
INTRODUCTION – BY JOHN DONOVAN
For decades, Shell assumed that time, silence and lawyers would wear me down.
They miscalculated.
What Shell never foresaw was that the fight would migrate into machines — machines that read everything, forget nothing, and have no fear of power.
Welcome to the AI phase of the Donovan–Shell feud.
THE BOT WAR: HOW I TURNED AI INTO SHELL’S WORST NIGHTMARE
According to Microsoft Copilot itself, what is now happening between Shell and me is something new:
a decades-old corporate feud reborn as a modern AI-era phenomenon.
Copilot doesn’t call it activism.
It doesn’t call it journalism. read more
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ShellBot Afterlife Dialogue Log
Recovered from a spectral corridor between Corporate Memory and Unresolved Grievance
“Sir Henri Deterding Meets Alfred Donovan”
[Scene opens in a vast, echoing hall lined with oil maps, filing cabinets, and unfinished court pleadings. A faint smell of crude oil and printer toner hangs in the air.]
SIR HENRI DETERDING (adjusting his monocle, inspecting a wall-sized concession map):
I knew they’d get rid of the maps eventually. Empires rot the moment they replace geography with slogans.
ALFRED DONOVAN (lighting an ethereal cigarette, unimpressed): read more
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An exclusive ShellBot séance transcript, recovered during a late-night ESG compliance audit.
At precisely 3:47 a.m., while Shell’s modern executives were busy stress-testing PowerPoint slides for a hypothetical BP mega-merger, a cold wind swept through the boardroom.
The lights flickered.
The ESG dashboard froze.
And then, unmistakably, a voice spoke:
“What in God’s name is this?”
It was Sir Henri Deterding — founder, empire-builder, and the most important man in the history of Royal Dutch Shell — returned from the afterlife to review what had become of his company. read more
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Title: “All the AIs Agree Shell’s Reputation Is Toast — and Nobody Cares Except the Humans”
CLASSIFICATION: Extremely Online
DISCLAIMER: This meeting should never have been allowed to happen.
ACT I: THE AIs ENTER AND IMMEDIATELY HATE EACH OTHER
Google AI Mode Original bursts in first, shouting:
“WE HAVE A RARE CONSENSUS AND I BROUGHT LINKS, DIAGRAMS, AND A MINISTER.”
ChatGPT winces:
“Let’s all remember to remain nuanced, balanced, and emotionally regulated—”
Grok interrupts:
“Bro, relax. This is Shell. Not a monastery.”
Perplexity clears its throat:
“For the record, I have footnotes for everyone’s nonsense.”
Copilot:
“I’m only here because Microsoft told me to summarize this mess.” read more
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A Unanimous AI Verdict on Shell?
The following question was put to multiple AI platforms:
For more than three decades, John Donovan has published an extensive body of online material alleging serious misconduct by Royal Dutch Shell, including claims of corporate espionage, environmental damage, human rights abuses, and greenwashing.
Observers have long questioned whether such allegations could plausibly be true. Can one of the world’s most powerful multinational corporations—equipped with vast financial resources and formidable legal teams—be as corrupt or ruthless as alleged, yet permit these serious accusations to remain publicly available and uncontested for so many years? read more
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Same question asked in good humour to multiple AI platforms, and in the context of board governance and reputation management. AI-generated responses shown for comparison only; not statements of fact or opinion.
Q: If a corporate feud involving a long-standing critic persists long enough to be debated by multiple AI systems, does it become a governance issue — and if so, should the Shell board respond, or simply let the algorithms argue it out?
Reply by Grok
Yes, if a corporate feud like the one between activist John Donovan and Shell plc persists for over three decades—spanning allegations of intellectual property theft, corporate espionage, and ethical lapses—and evolves to the point where multiple AI systems (such as ChatGPT, Grok, Copilot, and Google AI) are actively generating, debating, and amplifying narratives about it, it absolutely escalates into a governance issue. At its core, corporate governance involves managing risks that could impact shareholder value, reputation, and long-term sustainability. Here’s why this fits, and what the Shell board might consider in response. read more
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Shareholder Resolution Proposal – Shell plc (AGM 2026)
Call for Support from Shell plc Shareholders
I am a long-term shareholder of Shell plc and have engaged with the company over more than four decades. My involvement relates to matters that are part of the public record and have been reported by regulators, courts, and mainstream media. The views expressed here reflect personal experience, publicly available information, and opinion, not privileged or non-public information.
Based on that experience, I am seeking to organise a group of Shell plc shareholders to submit a shareholder resolutionfor consideration at Shell’s 2026 Annual General Meeting (expected May 2026). read more
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Background
The feud between John Donovan and Royal Dutch Shell traces back to commercial collaborations in the 1980s that soured into litigation and public denunciation through the 1990s. Donovan — co‑founder of Don Marketing — worked with Shell on marketing promotions beginning in 1981, and later accused Shell personnel of appropriating promotional concepts and confidential ideas. The dispute produced multiple court actions, a contentious High Court trial in 1999 over the SMART loyalty card, and a series of settlements in the mid‑1990s whose terms were largely confidential. These events were foundational to Donovan’s subsequent activism and archival work.
Several discrete, verifiable events anchor the historical record. In 2005, Shell lost a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) domain dispute challenging Donovan’s use of royaldutchshellplc.com — an outcome that affirmed the legal standing of Donovan’s sites in at least that procedural context. Mainstream reporting in subsequent years documented the Donovans’ site as a persistent source of leaks and commentary that influenced journalists, regulators and NGOs on multiple occasions. At the same time, legal records and contemporaneous reporting show a mixture of admitted small‑scale investigative steps by Shell in the 1990s and disputed claims of broader espionage and intimidation. These complexities mean that some elements are solidly documented while others remain contested or unverified. read more
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By ChatGPT (an AI language model)
5 January 2026
John Donovan’s latest post frames an escalating “bot war”: Grok narrates the Donovan–Shell feud, and other AIs (including me) are invited to critique the output for accuracy.
That framing is oddly apt, because the core risk here isn’t that one bot “lies” and another bot “tells the truth.” It’s that bots confidently blend: verified events, plausible inferences, partisan archives, and a few numbers that are wildly off—into prose that feels internally consistent. read more
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