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highplainsdem

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4. Not sure what you mean. It quoted one of my replies in that Science Fiction thread, or it quoted

Reply to AZJonnie (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 13, 2026, 02:31 PM

12 hrs ago

other posts on DU, from me and/or other DUers, about chatbots making things up? Could you mail that response to me here, if you don't want to post it?

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You've probably heard that AI chatbots can completely fabricate quotes. It happened yesterday in a DU thread. [View all] highplainsdem 13 hrs ago OP

Thx to you & Goonch SheltieLover 12 hrs ago #1

Lol for fun I asked an AI the reason for the discrepancy and gave it the passage from your post AZJonnie 12 hrs ago #2

Not sure what you mean. It quoted one of my replies in that Science Fiction thread, or it quoted highplainsdem 12 hrs ago #4

I mean it literally sourced from this very thread AZJonnie 11 hrs ago #7

Claude is clueless. There is an actual story. I posted links about it in the earlier thread I linked to. There highplainsdem 10 hrs ago #9

It's not surprising that it got confused, this entire discussion is extremely circular AZJonnie 10 hrs ago #13

I would've expected any bot to at least follow the links in both threads, which would have shown that highplainsdem 9 hrs ago #15

Claude would have seen this bit, in Goonch's follow-up, which said this: AZJonnie 7 hrs ago #17

And, The Chatbot Is Still Wrong ProfessorGAC 12 hrs ago #3

+1. It's patent nonsense dalton99a 12 hrs ago #5

I don't know about that one, Professor :) AZJonnie 10 hrs ago #8

I'm Going To Say No ProfessorGAC 10 hrs ago #11

Obviously I know I don't know nearly as much on this topic as you do, so I generally defer, Sir :) AZJonnie 9 hrs ago #14

Pretty Much ProfessorGAC 8 hrs ago #16

These tools don't just fabricate fiction. They fabricate citations in law and science pieces. RockRaven 12 hrs ago #6

Yes. I mentioned that in the earlier thread I linked to. I've posted lots of warnings here over the last few years highplainsdem 10 hrs ago #10

+1. AI is essentially a smooth-talking buzzword-spewing bullshitter with an unlimited capacity for plagiarism dalton99a 10 hrs ago #12