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Animatstoday at 4:17 AM2 repliesview on HN

It seems to be using more info from pre-1900 rather than 1930. It doesn't know about the Great Depression (1929-WWII). It knows about WWI if you ask it specifically, but talks about European politics as if it's 1900 or so.

On technology, it knows who Edison is, at roughly the Wikipedia level, but credits him with a 125MPH car. About a dial telephone, it is confident and totally confused. It has the traction voltage for the London Underground right. But then it goes on with "Thus, if the current be strong enough to force its way through a resistance of 100 ohms, it is said to have a pressure of 100 volts; and, if it can overcome 1,000 ohms, its pressure is 1,000 volts." Which is totally wrong.

There's a general pattern. The first sentence or two has info you might get from Google. Then it riffs on that, drifting off into plausible nonsense.

Don't ask this thing questions to which you do not know the answer. You will pollute your brain.


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imirictoday at 5:30 AM

> Don't ask this thing questions to which you do not know the answer. You will pollute your brain.

So like any LLM?

snyphertoday at 5:02 AM

>The first sentence or two has info you might get from Google. Then it riffs on that, drifting off into plausible nonsense.

Oh, it's a 2026 human simulator.