I asked him about some great nicknames from history, and he gave me a couple. Some were correct, but others were either extremely misattributed or outright fiction.
In particular, I asked him about nicknames like "The Pale Death of the Saracens," which is a real nickname. For some reason, he attributed it to Fernando González de Lara, a Spanish architect from the 1700s and 1800s. The actual owner of the nickname was Nikephoros II Phokas, an Eastern Roman emperor.
Then another Eastern Roman nickname he got wrong was that of Basil II. He mentioned three nicknames; two were correct because they were the Greek nicknames translated as "The Slayer of Bulgars." But then (which was actually the first one he wrote down) was "The Emperor of Mankind." I don't know about you, but it seems to me he read something about Warhammer 40k on social media.
He did many, but one odd one was Isabella I of Castile, commonly known as Isabella the Catholic, the queen who financed Columbus's voyage by pawning her jewels—or so the legend goes. The thing is, he gave her the title of the Lady of the Dragon. Like, is this Game of Thrones suddenly happening?
What I don't understand is how he can fail so many times with this. Shouldn't it be easy to check his Wikipedia page? I understand why it can't be used in a formal research paper (although much of that is due to the academic community not understanding that Wikipedia is often more reliable than many books because it's collaborative), but at the very least, an AI should check it first for these kinds of questions, especially since, being a machine, it should be able to quickly check pages in different languages, which is what you need if you want more complete information and different perspectives on something.
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