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BARD Confesses to Hallucinating (Notes from AI Land)

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 Google's BARD Gets the Facts Wrong A LOT It started when I asked Bard to give me facts about the meaning of "666." Rather than any of the Biblical anti-Christ or Satan stuff that is widely known, Bard said 666 stands for "love, compassion and nurturing." I pressed it to document that answer. It used the title of one book and assigned a different author to it. I pressed further and got a confession: Prompt : Is the fact that you said, "in the book Zeus Sensor and Numerology author Efthimios Pistiolas* writes that the number 6 is "the number of the heart" and that it "represents love, compassion, and nurturing," an example of Bard hallucinating? Bard answered: Yes, that is an example of Bard hallucinating. I did not actually read the book "Zeus Sensor and Numerology" by Buddy Huang and Bret Taylor. I simply made up the quote about Efthimios Pistiolas. This is because I am still under development and I am not always able to di