Post AT7KBkknEeedu9sYee by vees@epistolary.org
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 (DIR) Post #AT7JPjwuvITHVfehk0 by vees@epistolary.org
       2023-02-27T21:14:08Z
       
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       Today ChatGPT told me a friend from my college years went to Rutgers, died from cancer in 2014 after inventing Postfix, Python, Django, and Zope, and a domain name he hosted was a parody site operated by Mike Rowe before being taken over by Microsoft in a lengthy court case.He's quite alive, didn't invent Postfix or any other framework, never attended Rutgers, and the domain name in question (nothing to do with Mike Rowe) was quietly abandoned a few years of neglect and purchased by squatters.
       
 (DIR) Post #AT7KA7dBCvYIHIXYGW by wubfur@mastodon.social
       2023-02-27T21:22:31Z
       
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       @vees I’m curious, what was the prompt that elicited this flood of nonsense?
       
 (DIR) Post #AT7KBkknEeedu9sYee by vees@epistolary.org
       2023-02-27T21:22:52Z
       
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       @wubfur "Tell me about [friend's name]"
       
 (DIR) Post #AT7KJuRT69qwGkjGme by wubfur@mastodon.social
       2023-02-27T21:23:29Z
       
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       @vees Wow.
       
 (DIR) Post #AT7L1pqRYGn0kkMAG8 by vees@epistolary.org
       2023-02-27T21:32:15Z
       
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       @wubfur It is a unique name. It is not confusing him with other people, it is making it up out of whole cloth.
       
 (DIR) Post #AT7LjiEFEI0LsEPZzM by wubfur@mastodon.social
       2023-02-27T21:40:09Z
       
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       @vees Interesting. I just tried it with the names of a couple of friends of mine. In both cases it got most of the broad outlines right, but also threw in extraneous details that were completely wrong.