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On 13/05/25 10:08, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> Here's a YASID that came up on another feed today, with some ruminations
> about AI hallucinations as well:
> 
> 	https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/do-androids-dream-of-fake-books
> 
> 	I asked, "Can you identify a sci-fi short story about a
> 	group of humans stranded in their reinforced habitat on a
> 	world dominated by hostile animals trying to genetically
> 	change themselves generation by generation to be able to
> 	survive among the hostile fauna on the planet?" My description
> 	of the plot continued, "When the last generation is released
> 	they do wipe out the animals outside, but immediately start
> 	digging in to attack their parent generation. The last line
> 	in the short story is something like "There's Donald now."
> 	And so I set Grok to work.
> 
> (spoiler: He does not get an answer).

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