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Very unlikely. That's a pretty accurate description of the startup. "CollegeAI" doesn't suggest at all it's an admission matching platform. The hot take would've been it's a college driven by AI, or college specializing in degrees related to AI or god knows what.

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If it hallucinates that it's to help people get into college (which isn't impossible to guess) everything else flows naturally from that.

Everything is possible. We're discussing what's likely and not likely. I don't buy the hallucination theory. BTW, technically it "hallucinates" everything, because it has no connection to the outside world, only memories to base its answer on. But if the hallucinations are correct, then being less correct is still a problem. If you can show it's more correct in other ways, be my guest.

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