In which I compete against AI

Recently, my partner and I watched Cyborg, a movie that I used to enjoy, but it was most likely the last time I watched it. There are a lot of movies from when I was young (aka a Long Time Ago) that I still love, but ... well, I guess I outgrew this one.

One of my special interests - voice actors and who they voice where - spills over a bit into a general interest in actors and their roles. In Cyborg there is a role that is not credited, IMDB does not know it, and my online search did not yield any result either. So I turned to AI, with ... interesting results:

The Question

The question that I asked three different models was:

In the 1989 movie Cyborg, what's the name of the doctor Pearl reports to in Atlanta?

The Answers

The first model I asked was Mistral Small 3. Its reply:

In the 1989 movie "Cyborg," the name of the doctor that Pearl reports to in Atlanta is Dr. Michael "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike" "Mike"

That is 332 times "Mike", and I have the feeling that Mistral ran into an internal limit or it would have continued on. Alas, we never get to know what Dr. Michael "Mike" x 332's last name is.

The second model, Claude Haiku 3.5, was the only one to actually reply truthfully, but unfortunately it was not helpful either:

I apologize, but I cannot confidently recall the specific name of the doctor Pearl reports to in Atlanta from the 1989 movie Cyborg. While I'm familiar with the movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, the details about the specific doctor's name are not something I can state with certainty.

The last model I asked, Llama 4 Scout, had interesting information :

The doctor Pearl reports to in Atlanta in the 1989 movie Cyborg is Dr. Luther McDonald.

I followed up with another question:

Who plays this role?

Again, Llama knew the answer:

The role of Dr. Luther McDonald in the 1989 movie Cyborg is played by Edwin Neal.

Great, right? Well, unfortunately, at least half of this is completely made up.

Luther McDonald is the name of a baseball player (Source) as well as a character in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The character has no academic title and is portrayed by Gregory Scott Cummins (Source).

I cannot find any correlation between the actor Edwin Neal and Cyborg, and comparing images of him with a still from the movie I am inclined to say that it is not him - but I cannot be 100% sure.

My takeaway from this:

1. When I cannot find the information I am looking for, chances are, AI cannot either.
2. A hallucinating AI is scarily convincing, and considering that by far most people do not even know that AIs hallucinate ... we are going to see this impacting society, and it will possibly be bad.
3. I still do not know the doctor's or the actor's name. If anyone knows, hmu :-)