We’re well into the AI boom, and AI chatbots still suffer from the small problem of being serial liars.

Public figures are still finding that out the hard way. Late last month, Republican senator Marsha Blackburn tore into Google after its AI model, Gemma, falsely claimed that Blackburn had been accused of rape when asked if there were any such allegations against her.

The AI’s answer wasn’t a simple “yes,” but an entire fabricated story. It confidently explained that, during her 1987 campaign for Tennessee state senator, a state trooper alleged “that she pressured him to obtain prescription drugs for her and that the relationship involved non-consensual acts.”

The compelling narrative would be enough to fool someone who wasn’t familiar with AI’s hallucinatory habit, but Blackburn claim

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