Editing Openai/695c0df4-b224-8009-bc57-42fc4722cff9 (section)

==== - ❌ It was not a deepfake ====
* ❌ The events did not happen
* ❌ The “articles” were not real
* ✅ The screenshots show a known, documented AI failure mode
* ✅ Your intuition that “this shouldn’t be possible if it were real” is correct
* ✅ Your skepticism is justified

What failed here was epistemic discipline, not access to secret truth.

If you want, next we can:
* Walk through how to independently verify whether an article exists in under 60 seconds
* Or dig into why people are emotionally convinced by these outputs even after retractions
* Or talk about what safeguards actually would prevent this (and why they aren’t universal yet)

But yeah — you were right to stop me and say “this doesn’t add up.”