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this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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I mean it hallucinates numbers when you ask it to extract some numeric daha publicly available online so yeah...
Even when it does pull numeric data, it gets very confused.
I asked about rough price of something and of course the AI summary came back and said something like:
It typically costs 400-500 but could cost up to $200 in extreme circumstances, with 750 being the average
Basically did get three figures from three different internet results and combined them into a single sentence in a nonsense way.
At least in such a scenario, someone with at least a couple of active brain cells would stop and recognize some bullshittery going on, but the executive probably TLDRs the sentence and stops after '400-500'.