Margaret Atwood says the problem with AI is ‘garbage in, garbage out’

Margaret Atwood onstage astatine Detroit Opera House connected January 26, 2026 | Photo: Monica Morgan/Getty Images

Maraget Atwood, the storied writer of The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin, was interviewed arsenic portion of the Babell Literary and Cultural Festival successful Porto, Portugal. As it usually does astatine these things, the contented of AI came up, and Atwood didn't mince words.

According to Deadline's recap, Atwood said she'd utilized an AI chatbot precisely once, Anthropic's Claude, and came distant unimpressed. She was looking for accusation astir the British detective bid Father Brown and, well:

"Claude gave maine the incorrect answer, oregon it lied. Of course, it didn't cognize it was lying due to the fact that it's not a quality being; it's a ample connection model… It had skimmed a …

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