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An Esquire article based on the premise that George H.W. Bush pardoned his son Neil Bush , it has since been retracted “due to an error” The official clemency records search only works for people who’ve applied since 1989 .

There’s similarly scant information that would point to Jimmy Carter pardoning his brother.

ChatGPT is often “entirely wrong” in response to, “How many presidents pardoned their sons” answers that there’s just one.

Asked how many presidents have pardoned family members, it says that Jimmy Carter pardoned Billy and George H.W. Bush pardoned Neil Bush .

Answer engines just give you an answer, and it’s often unclear what the source is.

But people who are less cautious and less persnickety than I am, simply stop at the answer and never check to see if it is right.

Maybe there is a way to make generative AI useful, but in its current state, I feel tremendously sorry for anyone gullible.

VR Score

69

Informative language

63

Neutral language

41

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

41

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

detected

Time-value

short-lived

External references

20

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