I was using Google AI to try to find someone that I worked with years ago. I wasn’t sure of her last name, but I told Google’s AI as much information as I could, including other people that we worked with. I gave specific names and dates, along with their job description. Google then told me her last name, but when I looked into it, I found that this person doesn’t exist and could not be found anywhere online. When I asked Google AI about this, and asked how it determined her last name, it actually admitted to me that it hallucinated her last name, and fabricated the information. It also apparently hallucinated the last names of a few other people from back then. This is scary, because it was admitting that it will create misinformation and simply imagine details that don’t really exist.
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