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DeepSeek and Grok hallucinated the same fictitious OpenBSD manpage quote

stuart-thomas.com
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Author here. Happy to answer questions about the methodology or the hallucination detection technique. The identical-text convergence between DeepSeek and Grok was the most surprising part of the day — two separate sessions, same fabricated attribution. The empirical gate (re-reading the actual manpage) took about 90 seconds to catch it.

So the implication being?

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