> To figure out whether they’re real or BSing you, the best way is to get them to tell you a lot of details about the situation—the more you get them to tell you, the harder it will be to BS all the details.

This is exactly the feature that allows people to distinguish a genuine recording from a faked one in Iain Banks' sci-fi series "The Culture"---it's impossible to fake a recording taken by a (machine) Mind because there's too much detail to fabricate.