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
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…
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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
hallucination, prompt engineering, Reddit, ChatGPT, speculative reasoning
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
Emphasizes the AI’s apparent fluency and specificity while minimizing its lack of biological plausibility, absence of citation, and detachment from empirical constraints.
AI as an entertaining, quasi-authoritative oracle — neither tool nor artifact, but a source of shareable 'what-if' answers.
Users have found that ChatGPT confidently estimates 35–45 lions could kill a T. rex.
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
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.
ChatGPT stated it would take between 35 to 45 male lions to kill a T. rex.
I asked home many Lions it would take to kill a t-rex. It says between 35 to 45 male lions.
Extracted statistics from the source narrative
AI-generated estimate for hypothetical lion vs. T. rex combat