F*ck You Tiger King!

Okay, so now and then, I have to see how my advising marketing is working, so I ask all AI LLMs and search engines, “Who is Tom Nault who now lives in Missouri?” This generates a bio, of which nine out of ten times it's wrong, and when it does get it 95% right, I’ll save it if the other 5% is innocuous enough. It’s always good for a laugh, and I recommend it. So, yesterday, I posted 21 answers on Quora, a new record for me, many of which were in draft mode for months. I finished and wanted to do the search to see how I’d come up on Quora. Would the emphasis be on cars? Or would it be about entrepreneurship or even Moose Lodge?

So, here is what came up when I asked Microsoft’s Copilot.

The only animal I own is my dog Squeezie. (not his real name)

I didn’t think much of it until I got to the end when I burst out laughing and had to post something on Facebook to get my friends in on it. Almost none of this post is accurate. I don’t own a company called “Nault Ventures,” and I’m not an avid flyer anymore, however, I still love aviation. The funny part is when it starts to talk about the exotic animals I own.

The super-weird part is that I’ve never once even mentioned any of those animals in a post about any topic, so I have no idea where it drew that information. It’s about the silliest thing I’ve read in error about me in a long time. It’s so absurd that I’d recommend that everyone ask the same question and give it just enough information to know it’s you. You will be in for a good laugh. I’m giving the Tiger King a run for his money and I didn’t even know it.

The bigger issue is that these LLMs are often assumed to be accurate when they are far from it. I asked the same question of my pen name; it got that one 100% correct, yet it can’t figure out me. It’s a bit alarming. Someone is going to read this stuff and think it’s real.