Most of the negative reviews of Megalopolis quoted in Lionsgate’s trailer were made up

A few hours after the premiere, Lionsgate released a trailer Megalopolis which was clearly a “hater-targeting” effort with a selection of negative quotes about director Francis Ford Coppola’s previous works. That’s because reports like the one with Vulture Bilge two showed that critics in the trailer criticize films such as Godfather AND Apocalypse now were fabricated.

“Lionsgate is immediately pulling our trailer Megalopolis“- said a Lionsgate spokesman he said in a statement Diversity“We offer our sincere apologies to the critics involved, to Francis Ford Coppola, and to American Zoetrope for this inexcusable error in our review process. We screwed up. We apologize.”

All this has led some people to I immediately wonder whether the citations could have been generated by a tool like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Chatbots, specifically ChatGPT, will create citations in response to queries, along with citations and even bogus URLs for content that never existed. A renowned example is a case from earlier this year in which a lawyer cited court decisions that didn’t exist. The lawyer admitted to using ChatGPT in his research and said he was “unaware of the possibility that his content might be false.”

We asked Lionsgate if they used an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to create the trailer, but did not receive a response.

Diversity also informs that one of its employees was falsely quoted in the trailer for their review Bram Stoker’s Dracula and that Roger Ebert’s quote attributed to him Dracula the review was actually from a 1989 review. Neat.