The Unpredictable Consequences of AI Advancements.

AI chatbots, such as OpenAI's generative platform ChatGPT, perpetuate political falsehoods and biases that have rewritten American history. These "hallucinations" occur when the system generates responses that seem factual, formally correct, and properly written, but might be completely false. The biases and outright lies that reshaped academia over the last 50 years and infected the American body politic with division are endemic throughout versions of historical events perpetuated by AI platforms. The information spit out by platforms such as ChatGPT, if not intentionally programmed to be biased, may merely reflect the preponderance of information that already exists in the public realm.