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

Fri Feb 13, 2026, 04:20 PM

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are no fan-fiction versions of that story, AFAIK, and none of the searches I did for different sentences in that fake quote written by another chatbot turned up any results.

Claude completely invented a reason for what happened that had nothing to do with the reality I explained here.

The story itself is real. The other chatbot got the title and author right, and mentioned one of the books the story has been published in, but invented a fake ending.

I'd give Claude an F, but there really should be a grade Z for being so incredibly wrong.

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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 Friday OP

Thx to you & Goonch SheltieLover Friday #1

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

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

I mean it literally sourced from this very thread AZJonnie Friday #7

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

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

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

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

Interesting seeing you try to defend Claude's inane answer, when this thread links to the older thread highplainsdem Sunday #19

I guess I am, given you don't know what the actual prompt was, yet are arbitrarily coming up with a strawman AZJonnie Sunday #20

If there was anything close to intelligence in Claude, the highplainsdem Sunday #21

Why must you insist it's a delusional tangent AZJonnie Sunday #22

No, the problem using genAI is with genAI and its inherent flaws. Anyone who's ever used genAI should highplainsdem Monday #27

And, The Chatbot Is Still Wrong ProfessorGAC Friday #3

+1. It's patent nonsense dalton99a Friday #5

I don't know about that one, Professor :) AZJonnie Friday #8

I'm Going To Say No ProfessorGAC Friday #11

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

Pretty Much ProfessorGAC Friday #16

Can you name a movie in which one person occupied two places at the same time? Orrex Monday #29

BTTF Is A Prime Example, Yes ProfessorGAC Monday #33

Right, but that's not the same Marty in two places at once Orrex Monday #34

Not Getting You ProfessorGAC Monday #35

I think we're differing on what qualifies as the "same" person Orrex Monday #37

Oh wait. I just caught your bit about "lack of matter available" Orrex Monday #38

These tools don't just fabricate fiction. They fabricate citations in law and science pieces. RockRaven Friday #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 Friday #10

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

Exactly. highplainsdem Sunday #18

When ChatGPT became popular, people said AI systems really need to provide sources. Renew Deal Sunday #24

Good catch Renew Deal Sunday #23

Thanks - but I wouldn't have caught it if I hadn't already looked at a number of websites about the story so highplainsdem Monday #25

Yikes. So how do we combat this? It's only going to get worse. Scrivener7 Monday #26

Yeah, it's getting scary. I posted something I didn't know was AI. I took it down as soon as mucifer Monday #28

It's really bad in the political commentary video space Renew Deal Monday #31

I suspect AI systems will be like fish farms. cachukis Monday #30

I miss the old Google. Hell, I miss the old Alta Vista. haele Monday #32

Anyone can make up a quote. GoCubsGo Monday #36