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Letter: AI whodunnit had a fatal flaw

Published 18 October 2023

From Dave Neale, Bedford, UK

I agree that new AIs have shortcomings. When I asked ChatGPT to write a story in the style of Agatha Christie, it wrote pages of frighteningly realistic text until it broke the most basic rule of crime writing: it told me that it was the gardener who did it (7 October, p 20). The problem was, the gardener hadn’t previously appeared in the story!

Issue no. 3461 published 21 October 2023

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