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Not only did she never say that, Ebiri notes, but Kael was in reality a major admirer of the movie and wrote it a glowing review.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Internet sleuths who prompted \u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/chatgpt-artificial-intelligence-causes-a-sensation-with-amazingly-good-answers\">ChatGPT\u003C/a> to cook up negative quotes about "The Godfather" and Coppola's other movies found that the chatbot returned similarsounding fake-reviews, claiming in one case that Kael called the gangster epic "almost comic in its heavy-handedness."\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Based on those findings and our own testing, it appears that simply asking for a negative quote is enough for \u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/you-can-insert-false-memories-into-chatgpt-researcher-finds\">ChatGPT\u003C/a> to fabricate history and attribute whatever it makes up to any critic, regardless of what they actually said.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Telling the chatbot that the quotes aren't real causes it to try amend the error by offering up \u003Cem>more\u003C/em> fake quotes.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture class=\"image-align-left\">\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/foto-20/aidata-4.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg alt=\""Megalopolis" Trailer Pulled After Revelation That Its "Critic Quotes" Were AI-Generated Fakes\" class=\"image-align-left\" height=\"170\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/foto-20/aidata-4.jpeg\" width=\"300\" />\u003C/picture>How did a major distributor, Lionsgate, let this happen?\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Some speculate that a marketer set on the "critics-were-wrong" shtick simply asked \u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/chatgpt-and-marketing-how-ai-will-and-won-t-change-the-marketing-world\">ChatGPT\u003C/a> for negative reviews of Coppola's movies to avoid doing the legwork of poring over old newspapers and magazines — and then never bothered to check the responses it confidently coughed up.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Ch4>\u003Cstrong>Apocalypse... How?\u003C/strong>\u003C/h4>\n\n\u003Cp>The trailer has now been removed from YouTube, Twitter, and elsewhere, where it amassed millions of views prior to being taken down.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture class=\"image-align-left\">\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/foto-20/aidata-8.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg alt=\""Megalopolis" Trailer Pulled After Revelation That Its "Critic Quotes" Were AI-Generated Fakes\" class=\"image-align-left\" height=\"169\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/foto-20/aidata-8.jpg\" width=\"300\" />\u003C/picture>"We offer our sincere apologies to the critics involved and to Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope for this inexcusable error in our vetting process," Lionsgate, which is distributing the film in the US, told \u003Cem>Variety\u003C/em>.  "We screwed up. We are sorry."\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Screwed up is right. As the refrain for our \u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/what-are-the-benefits-and-risks-of-artificial-intelligence\">AI\u003C/a> age goes, \u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/professor-horrified-when-students-use-chatgpt-to-generate-briefly-introduce-yourself-assignment-in-ethics-course\">ChatGPT\u003C/a> is not a search engine — nor is any other LLM — and it can easily be a spreader of misinformation, as this episode and others have shown.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>This doesn't augur well for "Megalopolis," which has already proved divisive with critics. But Coppola has been here before: "Apocalypse Now" was once anticipated to be his next great opus, which also had a potentially ruinous budget with his own money on the line, and a controversial production to top things off.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Unlike the Vietnam picture, though, "Megalopolis" didn't manage to bag a Palme d'Or when it premiered at Cannes. It also didn't have a dumb chatbot sabotaging its marketing campaign. 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