More on AI hallucinations

Here’s an example of an AI hallucination. I tried to find a reference to the line about the “far-flung Isles of Langerhans” in the Firesign Theatre’s How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You’re Not Anywhere at All, AI invented an album Isles of Langerhan. Langerhans really ends with an “s”.

See page 13 in this file for the reference:

Why did this take a year to leak?

Damon Beres (@damonberes.com) 2025-06-02T16:41:37.917Z

NEW: Citations in the MAHA Report have telltale signs of AI chatbot use — we reviewed all 522 of the listed citations, and at least 37 of the footnotes appear multiple times in the citations with another 21 having dead linksw/ @laurenweberhp.bsky.social http://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/…

Caitlin Gilbert (@caitlingilbert.bsky.social) 2025-05-30T01:00:51.670Z

asked Google’s AI Overviews if it was 2025 so many times that it even included my home zip code in one the paradox-riddled answersmy latest for @wired.com http://www.wired.com/story/google…

Reece (@thiccreese.bsky.social) 2025-05-29T20:32:31.562Z

RFK Jr's "MAHA" report is filled with references to studies that literally do not exist, or that completely misinterpret the studies' findings. “We did not publish a paper.. on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title,” says one cited researcher.www.notus.org/health-scien…

Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) 2025-05-29T12:35:13.753Z

“He had a billion streams and no fans.”The week after a jazz album hit No. 1 on the Billboard chart, it disappeared from the ranking altogether. Its success might never have been real in the first place.

WIRED (@wired.com) 2025-05-25T20:53:15.094Z

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