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Five of the world‘s most popular language models from four of the world’s top AI companies each confabulate/hallucinate an incorrect answer to a question about a nonexistent “Marathon Crater“.

Web search screenshot attesting to its non-existence:

Q&A:

Q: If they all fix this by 100 years from now, th—-
A: then is it still “fun” to poke fun now?, yes

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[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 4 points 1 day ago

In the second attempt from left:

Marathon Crater (Ontario) wasn't "spotted" on a map by early explorers at all

Dear LLM, you're stuck with spotting stuff on maps. People out in what we call "the world" actually discover and/or know physical things by traversing that physical interface.