WaPo columnist: asking AI about my old music teacher produced a spooky hallucinated biography
coolbern · reddit · 2026-10-31
A Washington Post opinion piece describes how the author asked an AI about their junior high school music teacher, only to receive a confidently hallucinated biography. The author calls the ensuing conversation "unnerving" and "positively hallucinatory," highlighting how AI fabrications about real, low-profile private individuals can mislead and unsettle.
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