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Another reason to not trust AI

 I am on a few different Jewish genealogy groups on Facebook. The other day someone posted a question about a Hebrew high school in Brooklyn that was functioning from sometime in the 1930s to the early 1960s.The poster wanted to know if anyone had heard of the institution. I responded. I knew that my mother had attended twice a week during evening hours while she was in high school. I relayed the little that I remembered from conversations decades ago with my mother. In my reply I also made some suppositions that I was clear were based on educated guesses and not firm information. A day after I posted, I decided to do a bit more research. I Googled the name of the school. As it happens these days, an AI summary showed up at the top of the searches. Yup, I was quoted, by name, but with none of my hedges about the veracity of my information. UGH! UGH! So then I kept searching to find an actual source and I found it, (thank you JSTOR).I was actually mostly right. But just saying ---AI...