Critical Error A trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s upcoming sci-fi epic “Megalopolis” was pulled by distributors after it was called out for featuring made-up quotes from famous film critics, Variety reports. In a subversion of the plaudits that trailers usually cram in, the “Megalopolis” one painted Coppola — one of the most celebrated American filmmakers of all-time — as a “misunderstood” genius by showing us a wry Greatest Hits of critics panning his now legendary movies when they were first released, like “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now.” Except few, if any, of the negative quotes attributed to the likes of The New Yorker’s Pauline Kael and The Village Voice’s Andrew Sarris were real. Bilge Ebiri first called out the fake quotes at Vulture on Wednesday, and in the chaos that ensued, many noted that ChatGPT — or a similar large language model — appears to be the source of the quotes, in what is one of the more embarrassing debacles caused by AI hallucinations. Mega Sloppy Kael, for example, is quoted in the trailer as admonishing “The Godfather” for being “diminished by its artsiness.” Not only did she never say that, Ebiri notes, but Kael was in reality a major admirer of the movie and wrote it a glowing review. Internet sleuths who prompted ChatGPT to cook up negative quotes about “The Godfather” and Coppola’s other movies found that the chatbot returned similar sounding fake-reviews, claiming in one case that Kael called the gangster epic “almost comic in its heavy-handedness.”…"Megalopolis" Trailer Pulled After Revelation That Its "Critic Quotes" Were AI-Generated Fakes