Fabricated Synopses of Well-Known Movies and Can AI Lie?
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Episode 119 of I Hate Talking explores the word “fabrication,” tracing its roots from Latin and showing how it evolved from “making or constructing” to “deliberately making up a false story.” The hosts compare definitions from different sources and look at how the word’s usage has changed over time, including a quick detour into Google Ngram data.
The episode then turns into a game: the hosts read out thriller-style, intentionally misleading synopses of well-known family films and challenge each other (and listeners) to guess the movies. This leads to a wider conversation…
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