AI hallucinations and the dilemma of false or misleading information The strangest thing recently happened involving a lying AI chatbot.

It was at the end of November when I was reporting on gamified cryptocurrency and the ethics of allowing kids to play.

I needed a response from a company called Aavegotchi, given they were the crypto game in question.

Normally a company will take at least a few hours to respond to questions, sometimes even a day or two.

But with Aavegotchi, a company that appears to be based in Singapore, the response came back in under 10 seconds, signed off as Alex Rivera, the Community Liaison at Aavegotchi.

The response was detailed and physically impossible to write so quickly.

Not to mention the fact that it allowed no time for an executive to sign off on the response before pressing send.

And so naturally, I asked Alex Rivera if they were an AI bot.

This is what came back: (read on!)