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PaulDavisThe1sttoday at 5:25 PM1 replyview on HN

Somebody asked Gemini 3 yesterday about a piece of music I was looking for. It said:

> Based on the details you provided—specifically the overlap with the poem "AM" (from Be Bop or Be Dead) and "Set The Tone" (from Bernie Worrell's Blacktronic Science)—the track you are most likely looking for is: "Music" by DeadbEAT (featuring Umar Bin Hassan) Released in 1992/1993 on the album Wild Kingdom, this track was a cult hit in the acid jazz/trip-hop scene of the 90s and later appeared on compilations like the influential Red Hot + Cool (1994).

Very good, except that there is no album called "Wild Kingdom" by an artist named Deadbeat, and while Hassan does appear on "Red Hot + Cool" it is on a differently named track written by himself.

So forgive me if I call bullshit on Gemini 3 as well.

However, in this instance, it is a correct summary of the most visible popular summaries of Baumol's cost disease, so there's that.

I don't think it captures the essence of what Baumol (& Bowen) were writing about, but I accept that my presentation was misleading.


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crossbodytoday at 5:46 PM

LLM hallucinations are still a thing for ultra niche topics. Not a problem for topics that have sizeable wiki pages, like Baumol Effect. Here is the first paragraph from wiki: "...tendency for wages in jobs that have experienced little or no increase in labor productivity to rise in response to rising wages in other jobs that did experience high productivity growth"

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