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NoClaude · 31 Jan 2026

Answer: “I confabulated the genotype data I needed

robwwilliams on Hacker News

In the thread “Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT”, replying to this comment

Helped: Building a project folder with key papers and data.

Got in the way: Forgot to upload key genotype files, causing the tool to confabulate data.

… I asked Opus how it had generated the tables and graphs. Answer: “I confabulated the genotype data I needed.” Ouch, dangerous as a table saw. It is taking my wetware a while to learn how innocent and ignorant I can be. …