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i_think_soyesterday at 7:52 PM1 replyview on HN

Is that because this book is obscure and no human has yet written a description that could be scraped?


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keiferskitoday at 4:03 AM

No it was just an anthology of papers by a reasonably well-known academic.

The problem is more that instead of reasoning and realizing it didn’t actually know about the book, it just looked up a description of the author and then invented what this book was supposedly about based on the title.

A more intelligent reply would have been something like, “the author appears to be an academic in international relations, but I cannot find this exact book title.” Instead it just repeatedly gave me fake answers.