GPT-2 hallucinates a journalist-engineer backstory for itself, politely called out

MikePFrank · x · 2026-10-06

MikePFrank shares a funny moment: GPT-2 made up a backstory for itself, claiming to be both a journalist and a software engineer. When probed via Codex/Sol-6.1, the model politely pushed back on its own hallucinated self-description.

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