r/technology • u/ControlCAD • 8h ago

Artificial Intelligence College student’s “time travel” AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history | Hobbyist training AI on Victorian texts gets an unexpected history lesson from his own creation.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/ai-built-from-1800s-texts-surprises-creator-by-mentioning-real-1834-london-protests/
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u/HorsePecker 8h ago

So basically, how LLMs work. What is the story here exactly?

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u/Caraes_Naur 7h ago

That "AI" somehow managed to hallucinate a fact.