not exactly surprising that we are hearing more stories/examples of AI induced delusions in people, but it really makes me wonder if there was a concerted effort to kill news stories related to AI doubling down when incorrect.

No AI(LLMs) just got better, more accurately they got better at detecting they are incorrect and correcting themselves.

If you want to sort of grasp how it works, just search up the Chatgpt seahorse emoji debacle, arguably the best example of what happens when deep training data fights with the self-check logic.

C will be relevant till the heat death of the universe. if humanity ever dooms itself back to the stone age, all it would require is some bloke to invent a rudimentary binary computer and some nerd to write a basic C compiler for it, humanity will doom itself again in less than 50 years.

Reductive Fallacy