{"id":35044,"date":"2025-07-09T04:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T04:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=35044"},"modified":"2025-07-09T00:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T04:20:20","slug":"2-posts-by-stephen-hall-on-hallucinations-so-accurate-fiction-could-be-the-truth-or-worse-via-brett-caughran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/2-posts-by-stephen-hall-on-hallucinations-so-accurate-fiction-could-be-the-truth-or-worse-via-brett-caughran\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Posts by Stephen Hall on Hallucinations So Accurate Fiction Could Be the Truth or Worse via Brett Caughran"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heard a wild AI anecdote today<\/p>\n

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Investment analyst doing research on a company. Finds a piece of information that feels proprietary or hard to know. Presses the LLM for a source, “I don’t have a source for this information”. Presses again, “this is from board minutes of XYZ company”. Holy crap.<\/div>\n
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I do a little research to check this, and it’s clearly stated that personal ChatGPT conversations can be used in training. Apparently, proprietary internal information from one employee (presumably using a retail, not Enterprise version) becomes translated to an investment analyst indirectly via LLM training process.<\/div>\n
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this feels like the classic ‘is the facebook app listening to us’ debate. no, it’s not, it doesn’t have to.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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9:59<\/span> video sums up 14 chapters of a book coming out 11-11-2019 “What They Will NEVER Teach You at Stanford Business School”
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Fashion Week’s front row
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What A Super Model Can Teach a Harvard MBA About Credit www.slideshare.net\/larrychiang\/what-a-super-model-can-teach-a-harvard-mba-about-credit<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

American Express hosts me mentoring you about FICO scores at New York Fashion Week
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My video boils down 20,000 hours and moves you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve 
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52 Cards. Two Jokers. What They DO Teach You at Stanford Engineering
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Hunter Pence shared thoughts before winning WORLD SERIES’ Game #7
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