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Me: Who is Simon Willison? GPT4: Simon Willison is a British software engineer and entrepreneur known for his contributions to the world of web development. He co-created the Django web framework along with Adrian Holovaty in 2005, which has since become one of the most popular web frameworks for Python developers. Django is known for its ease of use, flexibility, and robustness, making it a popular choice for building web applications. Willison has also been involved in various other open-source projects and initiatives, such as the jQuery JavaScript library, Lanyrd (a social conference directory), and Datasette (a tool for exploring and publishing data). He is an advocate for open web standards and frequently speaks at conferences and other events about web development and related topics. Simon Willison has also written extensively on his blog about various subjects, including web development, programming, and technology trends.

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Me: Who is Simon Willison? GPT4: Simon Willison is a British software engineer and entrepreneur known for his contributions to the world of web development. He co-created the Django web framework along with Adrian Holovaty in 2005, which has since become one of the most popular web frameworks for Python developers. Django is known for its ease of use, flexibility, and robustness, making it a popular choice for building web applications. Willison has also been involved in various other open-source projects and initiatives, such as the jQuery JavaScript library, Lanyrd (a social conference directory), and Datasette (a tool for exploring and publishing data). He is an advocate for open web standards and frequently speaks at conferences and other events about web development and related topics. Simon Willison has also written extensively on his blog about various subjects, including web development, programming, and technology trends.
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Simon Willison (simon@fedi.simonwillison.net)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Mar-2023 03:53:23 JST Simon Willison

Just got access to GPT4 via ChatGPT and it's doing shockingly (and creepily) well on my test of "Who is X?" - here's its answers for Simon Willison and for Andy Baio
Both of them appear to be entirely accurate - in the past I've seen all sorts of wild hallucinations from this kind of prompt

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