In response to a query about cheating in chess, Google's new AI Overview told me that the young American player Hans Niemann had 'admitted to using an engine,' implying that Niemann had confessed to cheating against Magnus Carlsen in 2022.
The error turned up when I was searching for an article I had written about the controversy, which Google's AI cited. In it, I noted that Niemann has admitted to using a chess engine exactly twice, both times when he was much younger, in online games.
But mangling nuance into libel is precisely the type of mistake we should expect from AI models, which are prone to 'hallucination': inventing
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