Margaret Atwood dismisses AI after Claude gave her wrong information in one-time use

Acclaimed author Margaret Atwood shared her skepticism about AI during an interview at the Babell Literary and Cultural Festival in Porto, Portugal. Atwood, known for works like The Handmaid's Tale, revealed she has used an AI chatbot only once — Anthropic's Claude. She tested it by asking about the British detective series Father Brown, but the tool returned incorrect information. Atwood noted that Claude wasn't technically lying since it lacks human awareness, describing it as a large language model rather than a conscious entity. She summed up her concerns about AI with the phrase 'garbage in, garbage out,' suggesting the technology's reliability is only as good as the data it is trained on.