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In the early part of the 20th Century, there was a fad for "Radium". The magical, radioactive substance that glowed in the dark. The market had decided that Radium was The Next Big Thing and tried to shove it into every product. There …

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GitHub's Copilot lies about its own documentation. So why would I trust it with my code?

In the early part of the 20th Century, there was a fad for "Radium". The magical, radioactive substance that glowed in the dark. The market had decided that Radium was The Next Big Thing and tried to shove it into every product. There were radioactive toys, radioactive medicines, radioactive chocolate bars, and a hundred other […]

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@Edent I had this happen to me when I was using Coursera’s bot to try and work on gaps in my understanding before I took a quiz. I asked for some links to do additional reading on a subject. It gave me three, and all three were completely made up.