which it turned out belonged to James […] whose number appears on his company website.

When Smethurst challenged that, it admitted: “You’re right,” and said it may have been “mistakenly pulled from a database”.

but the overreach of taking an incorrect number from some database it has access to is particularly worrying.

I really love this new style of journalism where they bash the AI for hallucinating and making clear mistakes, to then take anything it says about itself at face value.

It’s a number on a public website. The guy googled it right after and found it. Its simply in the training data, there is nothing “terrifying” about this imo.