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Wednesday, October 07, 2026

A 16-year-old boy had to be rescued from the base of a massive and steep rock formation, ironically named the "Widowmaker," on British Columbia's Crown Mountain. As CTV News reports, the teenager took a gondola up to an altitude of over 4,000 feet to the top of Grouse Mountain " only for Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot to lead him off the trail route on his way back down.

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"Claude has never been in that specific area, has never been on that route, and has never been in the outdoors."

The long dash means the article was likely AI generated.

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Site here converts the long dash to "

#1 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-10-07 06:31 PM | Reply

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