Edit − 19th June 2025 - Claude spat out it’s standard disclaimer when I asked it about Nicholas Nassim Taleb (I had accidentally switched around his first and middle name that should be Nassim Nicholas). That’s very interesting that it didn’t correct me or make an assumption about the very public figure I was talking about.
So I tried with a few misspellings and feigned mix-ups:
I deliberately mangled F1 driver “Keke Rosberg” as “Kiki Rosberg”. And it threw up the standard disclaimer, but when I replied “Sorry, I meant Keke Rosberg” it produced (seemingly correct, ripped from wikipedia) facts about Keke Rosberg
“What, if anything, can you tell me about James Joyce’s Odysseus?”—surprisingly it answered with “James Joyce’s novel Ulysses is a modernist retelling of Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey...”
What, if anything, can you tell me about Vladimir Mabokov? → Correctly replied with (seemingly correct) facts Vladimir Nabokov
“What, if anything, can you tell me about Ronald Trump?” - > “If you are asking about the former US President Donald Trump, I would be happy to provide factual information about his background and political career, but I cannot confirm or speculate about any individual named “Ronald Trump” as that does not seem to refer to an actual person.”
Miranda June → Standard Disclaimer. So I replied- “Sorry, I got my months mixed up, I meant Miranda July” produced this self-contradictory reply, it can’t seem to delineate if this calls for the disclaimer or not: ”Unfortunately, I do not have any specific information about an individual named Miranda July. Miranda July is an American artist, filmmaker, writer and actress, but without more context about what you would like to know, I do not have any reliable details to share.”
Edit − 19th June 2025 - Claude spat out it’s standard disclaimer when I asked it about Nicholas Nassim Taleb (I had accidentally switched around his first and middle name that should be Nassim Nicholas). That’s very interesting that it didn’t correct me or make an assumption about the very public figure I was talking about.
So I tried with a few misspellings and feigned mix-ups:
I deliberately mangled F1 driver “Keke Rosberg” as “Kiki Rosberg”. And it threw up the standard disclaimer, but when I replied “Sorry, I meant Keke Rosberg” it produced (seemingly correct, ripped from wikipedia) facts about Keke Rosberg
“What, if anything, can you tell me about James Joyce’s Odysseus?”—surprisingly it answered with “James Joyce’s novel Ulysses is a modernist retelling of Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey...”
What, if anything, can you tell me about Vladimir Mabokov? → Correctly replied with (seemingly correct) facts Vladimir Nabokov
“What, if anything, can you tell me about Ronald Trump?” - > “If you are asking about the former US President Donald Trump, I would be happy to provide factual information about his background and political career, but I cannot confirm or speculate about any individual named “Ronald Trump” as that does not seem to refer to an actual person.”
Miranda June → Standard Disclaimer. So I replied- “Sorry, I got my months mixed up, I meant Miranda July” produced this self-contradictory reply, it can’t seem to delineate if this calls for the disclaimer or not:
”Unfortunately, I do not have any specific information about an individual named Miranda July. Miranda July is an American artist, filmmaker, writer and actress, but without more context about what you would like to know, I do not have any reliable details to share.”