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The speaker says ChatGPT hallucinated that Harry Shearer was British and misidentified the roles Shearer played in Spinal Tap, although Shearer is American.

Tim Scarfe · Three Red Lines We're About to Cross Toward AGI (Daniel Kokotajlo, Gary Marcus, Dan Hendrycks) · 24 Jun 2025

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“well-known actor and it misnamed the roles of characters that he played in the movie Spinal Tap and said that he was British when he's American and so forth. And I think this blurring together that we see of hallucinations remains a problem. And I could go on with a list of others. I think there are several having to do with reasoning planning etc.”
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