Jimmy Wales

And then I got up and it was in all the news everywhere because journalists had checked it and da, da, da, da.

And I'm like, yeah, okay.

I'm proud of myself in this case.

I didn't jump to a conclusion.

Turns out it was true, but I was waiting to check.

And I think that's what a lot of us should do, particularly when we live in an era of social media pylons that can be just ridiculous and toxic.

Like just don't believe it.

Just like go slow down a bit.

Yeah, I mean, somewhat.

Again, I think people are aware, but I think they need to be aware that, you know, AI hallucinates a lot.

And there was a lot of hype.

just before the launch of ChatGPT 5, the most recent version that, you know, like it was going to be a lot better.

It's a little better, you know, but it still gets things wrong.

And certainly when we look at it from the Wikipedia point of view, it's like if you want to write about something obscure, right?

and you ask Chaji BT about it, the chances of hallucination are much higher than if you write about something famous.

Like ask it, you know, write a Wikipedia entry about the Eiffel Tower.

It's probably going to have some mistakes, but it's going to be pretty much passable.

Ask it to write about somebody who was a contestant on Philippines version of American Idol in 2003.

It's going to make stuff up.

it's going to get it all wrong.