Bad movie reviews cited in Lionsgate’s Megalopolis trailer were mostly fabricated

A few hours after its release, Lionsgate released its trailer. Metropolitan it was clear “Taking aim at the haters” by selectively citing negative quotes about director Francis Ford Coppola’s past works. This is because such reports This is from a of the vulture Bilge Ebiri showed critics criticizing movies in trailers such as The Righteous One And Apocalypse Now were fabricated.

“Lionsgate is immediately recalling our trailer MetropolitanA Lionsgate spokesperson said A statement said Diversity“We sincerely apologize to the critics involved and to Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope for this unforgivable error in our screening process. We made a mistake. We’re sorry.”

Because of all this, some people Instant surprise Are citations generated by tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Chatbots, and ChatGPT in particular, will create citations in response to questions with quotes and even create fake URLs for content that never existed. A famous example is a case that happened earlier this year where A lawyer cited judicial decisions that did not existThe lawyer acknowledged using ChatGPT for his research and said he was “unaware of the possibility that its contents may be false.”

We’ve asked Lionsgate if it used generative AI tools in the creation of the trailer, but have not yet received a response.

Diversity It is also reported that one of its employees Incorrectly cited On his review of the trailer Bram Stoker’s Dracula and that a quote from Roger Ebert was attributed to him Dracula The review was actually from a 1989 review Batman.