Here's an odd thing. Several people suggested that Bard had a hard time with its fun facts about me because, after all, there are multiple Kevin Drums and it can't reliably know which one I was asking about.
In fact, LinkedIn lists 20 Kevin Drums! That seems like a lot. I was curious about one of them who is allegedly CEO of Infinity Technology in Arizona, but when I clicked on the company it brought up an outfit in Pune, Maharashtra. Further googling turns up nothing. Does LinkedIn also make stuff up?
According to Social Security death records, a grand total of one (1) person named Kevin Drum has died in the past 80 years (through 2014). So it's not a common name, and googling brings up almost no hits except for me and my namesake in Pinehurst who likes to golf and run for mayor.
Bottom line: I don't think Bard had any problem mixing up Kevin Drums. It just likes to make shit up. I also doubt that LinkedIn really has 20 Kevin Drums. I mean, maybe, but it just doesn't seem very likely.
LinkedIn has a massive problem with fake profiles. Just google "Linkedin fake profiles".
There is a wedding photographer in Hawaii and a middling-famous football (soccer) player in England with my name. And there was a woman (I'm male) who lives in my town who also shares my name; I really wanted to run in to her, but she seems to have disappeared, or at least her internet-public traces.
There are 36 Kevin Drums on Facebook with actual bios. Probably another 30 complete fakes. I'm sure Bard went through all of them.
These bots are really getting human now. If they don't know the answer to a question they just make stuff up. Has anyone asked a question of one and got the answer "I don't know"?
Only a matter of time before conservatives think they should all have guns and vote.
I am lucky I am not famous. I have been online for over 40 years and have a globally unique name. I can get Bard to tell me a few things about myself but it's pretty cagey about whether all the facts are for the same person. FWIW "who is xxx" works well but tell me "10 facts about xxx" seems not to be very reliable.
I'm going to guess an awful lot of people have figured out an awful lot of ways to run cons with e LinkedIn profile.
But there's some dude out there who keeps using my userid. If I find him, I'm goiing to digitize him. If you know what I mean.
People make up fake profiles on LinkedIn to make their own friend network, or even actual business, look better than it is. They frequently copy real people's names to do so, so those fake names may really be named after you, as someone with an internet presence but not actually a household name.