> The 50-year-old virtuoso fiddler said he later learned the inaccurate claims were taken from online articles regarding a man in Atlantic Canada with the same last name.
"AI" makes for a clickier story, but you don't need it to have that kinda screw-up.
Actually, you don't even need the web. Back in the 90's, a young coworker of mine was denied a mortgage. Requested his credit report - and he learned that he'd already bought a house. In another city. At age 5. Based on income from the full-time job at Ford Motor he'd had since age 4. And several other laughable-in-retrospect hallucinations.
> The 50-year-old virtuoso fiddler said he later learned the inaccurate claims were taken from online articles regarding a man in Atlantic Canada with the same last name.
"AI" makes for a clickier story, but you don't need it to have that kinda screw-up.
Actually, you don't even need the web. Back in the 90's, a young coworker of mine was denied a mortgage. Requested his credit report - and he learned that he'd already bought a house. In another city. At age 5. Based on income from the full-time job at Ford Motor he'd had since age 4. And several other laughable-in-retrospect hallucinations.
the difference is that "ai can have errors" absolves anybody of consequences for this sort of thing.