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NoChatGPT · 9 Sep 2025

for 3 of the excel cells, it clearly just made up new numbers

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3 of the excel cells

In the thread “Hallucination Risk Calculator”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Hallucinated numbers in 3 cells of a large CSV transformation.

… It got them all right. Except when I really looked through the data, for 3 of the excel cells, it clearly just made up new numbers. I found the first one by accident, the remaining two took longer than it would have taken to modify the file from scratch myself. …