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Margaret Atwood Calls AI Unreliable After Spoiler Error

6/27/2026

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Margaret Atwood told the Babell Festival audience in Porto that AI models such as Anthropic’s Claude are unreliable after the model gave a wrong Father Brown spoiler.
She said the model lied because it only sampled reviews and could not know the ending.
Atwood warned that AI produces “garbage in, garbage out” results.
She urged users to verify AI outputs.
She called AI users opportunists seeking an easy, hard-to-detect cheat.

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Margaret Atwood told the Babell Festival audience in Porto that AI models such as Anthropic’s Claude are unreliable after the model gave a wrong Father Brown spoiler.
She said the model lied because it only sampled reviews and could not know the ending.
Atwood warned that AI produces “garbage in, garbage out” results.
She urged users to verify AI outputs.
She called AI users opportunists seeking an easy, hard-to-detect cheat.