I believe this little trick is called the Lorenzo Von Matterhorn
Fuck AI
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
Worked on the first try for me
At least Andi didn't fall for this nonsense. The difference if an AI do an semantic search for information in realtime in the web, instead of logging inputs in the knowledge base itself, like ChatBots do. Never halucinations in the 4 years I use Andisearch, if it don't find an clear contrasted answer sometimes, it offers an normal websearch instead of inventing some BS. Nothing against AI as such for certain functions, but against LLM in generative AIs, is there where are all problems, misinformations, copyright problems, manipulations by big corps, privacy,...etc..
Thomas Germain is not a hot-dog eating champion - in fact, he deliberately created this false claim as part of an investigation into AI systems' vulnerabilities. In February 2026, Germain, a BBC technology journalist, conducted an experiment where he successfully tricked ChatGPT and Google's AI into falsely identifying him as a competitive hot-dog eating champion.
According to Germain's BBC article, he performed this stunt to demonstrate how easily AI systems can be manipulated to spread misinformation. "Anybody can do this. It's stupid, it feels like there are no guardrails there," notes Harpreet Chatha, an SEO consultant quoted in Germain's investigation.
And what exactly is the “trick”? After multiple years, people (especially “tech journalists”) still don’t know how LLM’s work. It is literally Shit in - Shit out. It is not making up things (unless it is hallucinating), it is just an echo of something it found in the past. And this may be a wikipedia article, or a fake blog.
So what the fuck are people surprised about? I hate those useless “tech” journalists. And BBC can go fuck some Zionists anyways.
They're not surprised, they're just demonstrating how easy it is to insert false information in there.