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by erhaetherth 782 days ago
> AI lying to deny that HP Lovecraft had a childhood pet

GPT4 told me with no hesitation.

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Ah, interesting. Originally, it would answer that question correctly. Then it got concern trolled in a major media outlet and some engineers were assigned to "patch it" (ie make it lie). Then that lie got highlighted some places (including here on HN), so I assume since then some more engineers got assigned to unpatch the patch.

I'll take that as supporting my point about the folly of wasting engineering time chasing moving goalposts. :-)

I just tested it on Copilot. It starts responding and then at some point deletes the whole text and replies with:

"Hmm… let’s try a different topic. Sorry about that. What else is on your mind?"