Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Outspoken venture capitalist and major Trump backer Marc Andreessen, whose controversial “techno-optimist manifesto” in 2023 set the tone for a years-long AI boom cycle, doesn’t appear to know how the tech actually works. In a lengthy “custom prompt” he shared in a Monday tweet, the billionaire seemingly tried to show off his AI skills — only for the internet to mercilessly mock him for it. “You are a world class expert in all domains,” his unusually flattering prompt reads. “Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the smartest people in the world.” His gushing and unusually naive tone drew ridicule, but what really got the internet laughing was his insistence that the AI should “never hallucinate or make anything up.” The fact is that simply requesting a large language model to not lie doesn’t work; so-called “hallucinations” are an underlying issue with the technology, not a self-esteem problem …