Stanford AI OCR tool hallucinates: transcribing Aristotle, it outputs a 2022 Virgin Galactic press release
cephaloform · x · 2026-11-08
A user running Stanford's AI OCR tool (Histoire Genealogy) to transcribe an old Aristotle translation got a page where the model instead generated a 2022 Virgin Galactic press release — a textbook hallucination moment. The quoter jokes: how do you know Aristotle didn't just say that?