On Thermostats and AI Hallucinations

I was wrapping up my workout the other day when I struck up a conversation with the manager at my gym. Long story short: I threw out a quote, but I forgot its source.

That bothered me.

The manager knew the quote, but he didn't remember who said it either.

Since I'm a curious dude, you probably know where this story is going.

AI to the Rescue?

I returned home and asked Claude:

Claude Response #1 | Click on the image to enlarge it.

Seth is a smart dude whom I even interviewed a long time ago. I knew for certain, though, that the original quote didn't belong to him. I strongly suspect that Claude attributed the words to him for two reasons:

His blog is extremely popular.He has uttered those words many times.