My attention has been drawn to a curious claim by the AI.

(Source: https://bsky.app/profile/awelder.bsky.social/post/3m22jpe3xrc2k)

For clarity: I am not Richard Chirgwin and never have been. He is a different person. People have seen us both in the same room.
@stilgherrian that sounds like the sort of hallucination a cheap natural intelligence would come up with. We know the truth... you were previously known as "Harold Holt".
@stilgherrian This sounds like something someone being asked about a series of suspicious fires would say.
@stilgherrian Yeah but how many of those people are also Richard Chirgwin?
@nickzoic In a way, aren’t we all Richard Chirgwin?

@stilgherrian I too can confirm that you are not Richard, and that he and you are very different. (I think I have seen you both together even)

But that is funny

@stilgherrian OK but which one of you says "It's chirgin' time"?
@stilgherrian Hello Richard, thank you for your toots.

What a coincidence. I, too, was previously known by a different, unstated name.

@stilgherrian