Indeed, when other Futurism employees asked the AI to write a bio, theirs were similarly littered with incorrect information. The author of this piece, Maggie Harrison, apparently studied "physics and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)," has written "several influential books," and was even named one of Forbes' yearly "30 under 30" winners. But the chatbot's penchant for resume embellishment doesn't just apply to Futurism employees. When Gary N. Smith, an economist and Pomona College professor who recently co-wrote an essay for Salon arguing that generative AI is doomed to be an economic bubble, asked ChatGPT to write a bio for him, the bot only got one thing right: the fact that he was a professor at Pomona College. The rest of the AI-generated bio, however, despite sounding really nice -- according to ChatGPT, Smith has "served as a consultant to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and United Nations Development Program" and has been "awarded numerous honors for his work in economics, including the Founder's Award from the Claremont Graduate University in 2010" -- was, according to Smith, entirely fabricated. The same goes for a growing number of netizens, some of whom have taken to Twitter to lampoon ChatGPT for their made-up life stories.