Margaret Atwood calls AI 'garbage in, garbage out' after Claude fails
margaret atwood dismissed ai after anthropic's claude hallucinated a tv plot, highlighting the 'garbage in, garbage out' reliability problem for users.
speaking at the babell literary and cultural festival, margaret atwood detailed her single experience with anthropropic's claude, noting it provided incorrect information due to training on incomplete sources. she criticized the 'opportunists' using ai to cheat but emphasized that the technology inevitably repeats the flaws of its training data. this highlights the persistent challenge of hallucination and data quality in llms, suggesting human oversight remains mandatory despite calls for automation.