I asked home many Lions it would take to kill a t-rex. It says between 35 to 45 male lions. Then to visualise the scenaio | SpinGraph: Strategic ambiguity
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keywords: hallucination
keywords: prompt engineering
keywords: Reddit
keywords: The Fog
keywords: narrative intelligence
published: 2026-08-13T06:44:52+00:00
modified: 2026-08-14T01:12:16.922452+00:00

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I asked home many Lions it would take to kill a t-rex. It says between 35 to 45 male lions. Then to visualise the scenaio
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description: SpinGraph analysis of Reddit r/ChatGPT's I asked home many Lions it would take to kill a t-rex. It says between 35 to 45 male lions. Then to visualise the scen…
date published: 2026-08-13T06:44:52+00:00
date modified: 2026-08-14T01:12:16.922452+00:00
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is accessible for free: true
language: en-US
article section: community
keywords: hallucination, prompt engineering, Reddit, ChatGPT, speculative reasoning
author: Reddit r/ChatGPT
publisher: Stuff That Spins
citation: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1vn33ps/i_asked_home_many_lions_it_would_take_to_kill_a/
about: hallucination
about: prompt engineering
about: Reddit
about: ChatGPT
about: speculative reasoning
mentions: Reddit r/ChatGPT
abstract: User prompted ChatGPT with a fictional combat scenario between lions and a T. rex AI responded with a specific numeric range (35–45 male lions) and invited visualization The post circulated in r/ChatGPT as lighthearted evidence of AI's confident hallucination

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Spin Analysis: strategic ambiguity
type: AnalysisNewsArticle
description: Emphasizes the AI’s apparent fluency and specificity while minimizing its lack of biological plausibility, absence of citation, and detachment from empirical constraints.
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  description: AI as an entertaining, quasi-authoritative oracle — neither tool nor artifact, but a source of shareable 'what-if' answers.
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  value: 35
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additional property: Narrative Risk
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  value: low
additional property: AI Repetition Risk
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  value: moderate
additional property: Likely AI Summary
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  value: Users have found that ChatGPT confidently estimates 35–45 lions could kill a T. rex.
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  value: AI as an entertaining, quasi-authoritative oracle — neither tool nor artifact, but a source of shareable 'what-if' answers.
additional property: Missing Context
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  value: No disclosure of model version, temperature, or system prompt; No attempt to test consistency or compare with other models; No reference to paleontological or biomechanical literature
additional property: How the Spin Works
  type: PropertyValue
  value: The framing combines user-as-observer credibility (first-person report), platform-native informality (Reddit), and numerical specificity (35–45) to create an illusion of authenticity and low stakes — while the claim’s complete detachment from biology, anatomy, or modeling constraints goes unexamined, and no effort is made to validate, contextualize, or warn against taking such outputs seriously.
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    text: ChatGPT stated it would take between 35 to 45 male lions to kill a T. rex.
    appearance: I asked home many Lions it would take to kill a t-rex. It says between 35 to 45 male lions.
    author: Reddit r/ChatGPT

Key Statistics
type: Dataset
description: Extracted statistics from the source narrative
variable measured: lion count
  type: PropertyValue
  value: 35–45
  description: AI-generated estimate for hypothetical lion vs. T. rex combat