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Sometimes ChatGPT spits out something original — and wrong, like fake presidential pardons.
It cited Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon, qualifying it with “though not a direct family member.” It also mentioned Andrew Johnson gave amnesty to former Confederate leaders “including some family members of prominent Southern figures.” It also, bizarrely, told me that Lyndon B. Johnson gave clemency to “various associates,” though noting “they didn’t often directly involve his own family.” What? Perhaps you remember earlier this year when a trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis was pulled because it contained fabricated quotes from critics. This happens in small ways, like Google’s AI wrongly saying that male foxes mate for life, and big ones, like spreading false information around a major news event.
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