Hours after it was launched, Lionsgate pulled a trailer for Megalopolis that was clearly “gunning for the haters” with a number of damaging quotes about director Francis Ford Coppola’s earlier works. That’s as a result of studies like this one from Vulture’s Bilge Ebiri confirmed that critic quotes within the trailer lambasting movies like The Godfather and Apocalypse Now had been fabricated.

“Lionsgate is instantly recalling our trailer for Megalopolis,” a Lionsgate spokesperson mentioned in a press release to Selection. “We provide our honest apologies to the critics concerned and to Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope for this inexcusable error in our vetting course of. We screwed up. We’re sorry.”

That each one led some folks to instantly marvel whether or not the quotes could have been generated by a software like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Chatbots, and ChatGPT particularly, will create quotes in responses to queries full with citations and even pretend URLs for content material that by no means existed. A well-known instance is a case earlier this yr the place a lawyer cited judicial selections that didn’t exist. The lawyer admitted utilizing ChatGPT for his analysis and mentioned he was “unaware of the likelihood that its content material could possibly be false.”

We’ve requested Lionsgate if it used a generative AI software as a part of the creation of the trailer however haven’t heard again.

Selection additionally studies that one in all its staffers was falsely quoted within the trailer over their evaluation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and {that a} Roger Ebert quote attributed to his Dracula evaluation was really from a evaluation of the 1989 Batman.