AI hallucinated a passenger's middle name, almost costing him his flight
menhguin · x · 2026-09-21
A viral AI fail: a model ("Instinct") made up a passenger's middle name, causing a mismatch that nearly kept him from boarding his flight. A concrete example of how hallucinations can cause real-world harm when models handle identity data.
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