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AI hallucinations %2F%2Fqz.com%2Femails%2Fdaily-brief%2F1850431263%2Fthrown-from-the-saddle%2F/3/010001880f6e1c4a-4d1eb8e2-19d4-4daf-8551-8b09f4018e69-000000/agxUuZCKTQe_MVeBneVD-MXTE_LmJlpNvZYL5-RC7VQ=300 Illustration: (Vicky Leta) ChatGPT isn’t always right—it told our podcast host Scott Nover that he’d won a prestigious press award for a story he’d never written and that he works at a different publication entirely. If it doesn’t know the facts, why doesn’t it just say so? Chatbots can’t actually lie, per se, as that implies intent. But researchers sometimes call these untruthful performances “hallucinations”—not quite a lie, but a vision of something that isn’t there. In [the latest episode](%2F%2Fqz.com%2Fai-hallucinations-chatgpt-chatbots-training-data-1850425577%2F%3Futm_source=email%26utm_medium=Quartz_Daily_Brief_US%26utm_content=1850431263/1/010001880f6e1c4a-4d1eb8e2-19d4-4daf-8551-8b09f4018e69-000000/dZFj6PonEBtprkhq5OL91tdcfXzuL1WKQgX7KBdj8vY=300) of the [Quartz Obsession podcast](%2F%2Fqz.com%2Fseries%2Fquartz-obsession-podcast%2F%3Futm_source=email%26utm_medium=Quartz_Daily_Brief_US%26utm_content=1850431263/1/010001880f6e1c4a-4d1eb8e2-19d4-4daf-8551-8b09f4018e69-000000/W7zFaQNKEJKSHF5GcKBpsA3FsuzFJDyElM2UYbu1bz8=300) Scott talks to Quartz emerging tech reporter Michelle Cheng about what’s really happening here, and what does it tell us about how we should use these AI systems? 🎧 [Listen right now!](%2F%2Fplayer.megaphone.fm%2FQMIA1401722911/1/010001880f6e1c4a-4d1eb8e2-19d4-4daf-8551-8b09f4018e69-000000/EaaE8j0VhRivrpRLBNuxH2Natq2oO9fjC0ck3gM1JzA=300) ✅ Or find it wherever you get your podcasts: [Apple Podcasts](%2F%2Fpodcasts.apple.com%2Fus%2Fpodcast%2Fquartz-obsession%2Fid1587735076/1/010001880f6e1c4a-4d1eb8e2-19d4-4daf-8551-8b09f4018e69-000000/LVaIdYfU9r-RR_FX8dpsapREbwIEotB_LBa-iX6Jnw0=300) | [Spotify](%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fshow%2F6yEQvRgukZ7LJGdGXNi1BT/1/010001880f6e1c4a-4d1eb8e2-19d4-4daf-8551-8b09f4018e69-000000/Ht_ya6mFSld176InQ7bjW8dlCNxLGBt13iIb-hOluII=300) | [Google](%2F%2Fpodcasts.google.com%2Ffeed%2FaHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vcXVhcnR6b2JzZXNzaW9ucG9kY2FzdA/1/010001880f6e1c4a-4d1eb8e2-19d4-4daf-8551-8b09f4018e69-000000/oi4Mjg_n2IRGVbdDLmJBXCIa6-48lQ2xKszojUGEktQ=300) | [Stitcher](%2F%2Fwww.stitcher.com%2Fshow%2Fquartz-obsession/1/010001880f6e1c4a-4d1eb8e2-19d4-4daf-8551-8b09f4018e69-000000/hZTNfZswcB3yFxAfJFIYO5QqPLfoqI1XvBDrIQg6UJQ=300) | [YouTube](%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fplaylist%3Flist=PLWHhRzSHrMU-pjsEa8sIEwQuB3RhS0jes/1/010001880f6e1c4a-4d1eb8e2-19d4-4daf-8551-8b09f4018e69-000000/yeqp-SSq3hilPFDsxax6TsyHCwKiIkkPlGJAzRFaR_k=300) 📖 Further reading: [How OpenAI ushered in the generative AI boom: a brief history](%2F%2Fqz.com%2Fhow-openai-ushered-in-the-generative-ai-boom-a-brief-h-1850385338%2F%3Futm_source=email%26utm_medium=Quartz_Daily_Brief_US%26utm_content=1850431263/1/010001880f6e1c4a-4d1eb8e2-19d4-4daf-8551-8b09f4018e69-000000/ecxdUsSGt1Hhr6i3mMd-RAQpiiWprkhrPYm3LOxdZig=300), and the member-exclusive “[Do AIs dream of electric sheep?](%2F%2Fqz.com%2Femails%2Fafrica-weekly-brief%2F1850363778%2Fweekend-brief-do-ais-dream-of-electric-sheep/1/010001880f6e1c4a-4d1eb8e2-19d4-4daf-8551-8b09f4018e69-000000/qdRUMYJrxvjO7HDqr3GsyyAHoogez6eF2-Ka3brwyjI=300)” (Want to become a member? 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Back in December, Quartz [crowdsourced an extensive list](%2F%2Fqz.com%2Fwho-should-be-twitters-next-ceo-1849919143%2F%3Futm_source=email%26utm_medium=Quartz_Daily_Brief_US%26utm_content=1850431263/1/010001880f6e1c4a-4d1eb8e2-19d4-4daf-8551-8b09f4018e69-000000/mKoooJXSSncn9fEsIMjsxdN9u5liwMvotED6nrmW3Ao=300) of potential Twitter CEOs and, admittedly, very few candidates were female. Here are some of the women who made our list: - Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg - Former Wikimedia CEO Katherine Maher - TikTok COO Vanessa Pappas Who will be Twitter’s next CEO? The Wall Street Journal says NBCUniversal’s advertising head Linda Yaccarino is in talks for the job, but email us [your pick](mailto:talk@qz.com?cc=&subject=My%20X%20CEO%20pick%20&body=), and we’ll share some of the highlights in Monday’s newsletter. 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