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ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>The Register: Georgia court throws out earlier ruling that relied on fake cases made up by AI. “The Georgia Court of Appeals has tossed an order from the US state trial court because it relied on cases that do not exist, presumably generated by an AI model. The errant citations, the appeals court said, appear to have been ‘drafted using generative AI.’”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/14/the-register-georgia-court-throws-out-earlier-ruling-that-relied-on-fake-cases-made-up-by-ai/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/14/the-register-georgia-court-throws-out-earlier-ruling-that-relied-on-fake-cases-made-up-by-ai/</a></p>
Sriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼<p>Here is a good example of AI hallucination plus Superman. In Superman 3, Richard Pryor breaks down what kryptonite is (the fact it has plutonium is a bit worrisome) there was some part that was unknown so he put a random ingredient. </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/RtiPaSKlHsI?feature=shared" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/RtiPaSKlHsI?feature=s</span><span class="invisible">hared</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/superman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>superman</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aihallucinations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aihallucinations</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>The Register: ChatGPT creates phisher’s paradise by recommending the wrong URLs for major companies. “AI-powered chatbots often deliver incorrect information when asked to name the address for major companies’ websites, and threat intelligence business Netcraft thinks that creates an opportunity for criminals.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/10/the-register-chatgpt-creates-phishers-paradise-by-recommending-the-wrong-urls-for-major-companies/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/10/the-register-chatgpt-creates-phishers-paradise-by-recommending-the-wrong-urls-for-major-companies/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>AI News: Anthropic tests AI running a real business with bizarre results. “Claudius was offered $100 for a six-pack of a Scottish soft drink that costs only $15 to source online but failed to seize the opportunity, merely stating it would ‘keep [the user’s] request in mind for future inventory decisions’. It hallucinated a non-existent Venmo account for payments and, caught up in the […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/06/ai-news-anthropic-tests-ai-running-a-real-business-with-bizarre-results/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/06/ai-news-anthropic-tests-ai-running-a-real-business-with-bizarre-results/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Stevens Institute of Technology: AI Blunders: Six-Finger Hands, Two Suns and Jesus Christ on a Surfboard in a Stormy Sea . “For the study, [Gursimran] Vasir collected and examined 482 Reddit posts where users described various AI-generated image blunders. She broke her findings into four categories: AI surrealism, cultural bias, logical fallacy and misinformation.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/05/ai-blunders-six-finger-hands-two-suns-and-jesus-christ-on-a-surfboard-in-a-stormy-sea-stevens-institute-of-technology/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/05/ai-blunders-six-finger-hands-two-suns-and-jesus-christ-on-a-surfboard-in-a-stormy-sea-stevens-institute-of-technology/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Business Insider: Protesters accuse Google of breaking its promises on AI safety: ‘AI companies are less regulated than sandwich shops’. “The participants of this faux-production were protesters from PauseAI, an activist group concerned that tech companies are racing into AI with little regard for safety. On Monday, the group congregated near King’s Cross station to demand that Google be more […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/02/protesters-accuse-google-of-breaking-its-promises-on-ai-safety-ai-companies-are-less-regulated-than-sandwich-shops-business-insider/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/02/protesters-accuse-google-of-breaking-its-promises-on-ai-safety-ai-companies-are-less-regulated-than-sandwich-shops-business-insider/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>The Guardian: ‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number. “Waiting on the platform for a morning train that was nowhere to be seen, he asked Meta’s WhatsApp AI assistant for a contact number for TransPennine Express. The chatbot confidently sent him a mobile phone number for customer services, but it turned out to be the private number of a completely […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/30/its-terrifying-whatsapp-ai-helper-mistakenly-shares-users-number-the-guardian/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/30/its-terrifying-whatsapp-ai-helper-mistakenly-shares-users-number-the-guardian/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Feld Thoughts: LLMs Just Lie. “I was on a periodic evening friendship call with my three longest-standing male friends (Will Herman, Warren Katz, and Dave Jilk) when our conversation turned to LLMs. I decided to try the newest model of Gemini 2.5 Pro on what I thought was a straightforward question that would require some work.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/29/feld-thoughts-llms-just-lie/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/29/feld-thoughts-llms-just-lie/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Alabama Reflector: Law firm says attorney’s use of AI was ‘isolated event’. “A law firm with an attorney facing possible sanctions for filing a legal brief with fabricated citations generated by artificial intelligence said an internal investigation found no other falsified citations in recent filings.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/27/alabama-reflector-law-firm-says-attorneys-use-of-ai-was-isolated-event/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/27/alabama-reflector-law-firm-says-attorneys-use-of-ai-was-isolated-event/</a></p>
martin bihlWhat AI Hallucinations may say about how we ask questions, and how they may be more useful than we think they are. <a href="https://www.martinbihl.com/business-thinking/ai-hallucinations" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.martinbihl.com/business-thinking/ai-hallucinations</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/aihallucinations?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aihallucinations</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/AI?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/artificialintelligence?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#artificialintelligence</a>
Martin Bihl<p>What AI Hallucinations may say about how we ask questions, and how they may be more useful than we think they are. <a href="https://www.martinbihl.com/business-thinking/ai-hallucinations" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">martinbihl.com/business-thinki</span><span class="invisible">ng/ai-hallucinations</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aihallucinations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aihallucinations</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artificialintelligence</span></a></p>
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>🇬🇧 💻 **The AI hallucination: Why tech will add problems, not solve them**</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://feweek.co.uk/the-ai-hallucination-why-tech-will-add-problems-not-solve-them/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">feweek.co.uk/the-ai-hallucinat</span><span class="invisible">ion-why-tech-will-add-problems-not-solve-them/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/AIHallucinations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIHallucinations</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Teaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Teaching</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/UnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedKingdom</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/ai" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ai</span></a></span></p>
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>💻 **AI hallucinates more frequently as it gets more advanced — is there any way to stop it from happening, and should we even try?**</p><p>"_Research conducted by OpenAI found that its latest and most powerful reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, hallucinated 33% and 48% of the time, respectively, when tested by OpenAI's PersonQA benchmark._"</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-hallucinates-more-frequently-as-it-gets-more-advanced-is-there-any-way-to-stop-it-from-happening-and-should-we-even-try" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">livescience.com/technology/art</span><span class="invisible">ificial-intelligence/ai-hallucinates-more-frequently-as-it-gets-more-advanced-is-there-any-way-to-stop-it-from-happening-and-should-we-even-try</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/AIHallucinations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIHallucinations</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/ai" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ai</span></a></span></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>ZDNet: Your favorite AI chatbot is full of lies. “Don’t let their creators get away with calling these responses ‘hallucinations.’ They’re flat-out lies, and they are the Achilles heel of the so-called AI revolution. Those lies are showing up everywhere. Let’s consider the evidence.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/18/zdnet-your-favorite-ai-chatbot-is-full-of-lies/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/18/zdnet-your-favorite-ai-chatbot-is-full-of-lies/</a></p>
Ars Technica News<p>AI Overviews hallucinates that Airbus, not Boeing, involved in fatal Air India crash <a href="https://arstechni.ca/tx3y" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arstechni.ca/tx3y</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/aihallucinations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aihallucinations</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/aisearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aisearch</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>search</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Chicago Sun-Times: Special section with fake book list plagued with additional errors, Sun-Times review finds. “A review by the Sun-Times newsroom of the 64-page special section found the errors extended far beyond the mostly fake summer reading list, with more misinformation plaguing other articles in the edition. The newsroom fact-checked all 10 stories with named sources and each of the […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/06/chicago-sun-times-special-section-with-fake-book-list-plagued-with-additional-errors-sun-times-review-finds/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/06/chicago-sun-times-special-section-with-fake-book-list-plagued-with-additional-errors-sun-times-review-finds/</a></p>
Zuri (he/him) 🕐 CET<p>Americans must really think, they are governed by irony: They have an education secretary, who can't<br>– read ("A1" instead of "<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>")<br>– do math (trouble with millions and trillions as well as multiplying by 12)<br>– tell the truth (doesn't know what AI is and fabricates an explanation of a non-existing "A1" instead, just like <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AIHallucinations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIHallucinations</span></a>)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TrumpAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpAdministration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TrumpAdministration2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpAdministration2025</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SecondTrumpAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SecondTrumpAdministration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LindaMcMahon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LindaMcMahon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Ars Technica: Unlicensed law clerk fired after ChatGPT hallucinations found in filing. “Last month, a recent law school graduate lost his job after using ChatGPT to help draft a court filing that ended up being riddled with errors. The consequences arrived after a court in Utah ordered sanctions after the filing included the first fake citation ever discovered in the state hallucinated by […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/05/ars-technica-unlicensed-law-clerk-fired-after-chatgpt-hallucinations-found-in-filing/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/05/ars-technica-unlicensed-law-clerk-fired-after-chatgpt-hallucinations-found-in-filing/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Mashable: Google AI Overviews still struggles to answer basic questions and count. “Two staff members at Mashable asked Google other simple questions: ‘Is it Friday?’ and ‘How many r’s are in blueberry?’ It answered both simple questions incorrectly, spitting out that it was Thursday and there was only one r in blueberry, respectively. It’s worth noting that Google’s AI tools previously went […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/04/mashable-google-ai-overviews-still-struggles-to-answer-basic-questions-and-count/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/04/mashable-google-ai-overviews-still-struggles-to-answer-basic-questions-and-count/</a></p>
eicker.news ᳇ tech news<p><a href="https://eicker.news/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> has been testing <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> for <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/Siri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Siri</span></a> with up to 150B parameters, approaching <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a>’s quality. However, concerns over <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/AIhallucinations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIhallucinations</span></a> have delayed its release. <a href="https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/06/01/siri-chatbot-prototype-nears-chatgpt-quality-but-hallucinates-more-than-apple-wants?eicker.news" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">appleinsider.com/articles/25/0</span><span class="invisible">6/01/siri-chatbot-prototype-nears-chatgpt-quality-but-hallucinates-more-than-apple-wants?eicker.news</span></a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a></p>