Not as wrong as the author thinks. From Britannica.com:
"Greek language, Indo-European language spoken mostly in Greece. Its history can be divided into four phases: Ancient Greek, Koine, Byzantine Greek, and Modern Greek."
From wikipedia: “[Homeric Greek] is a literary dialect of Ancient Greek consisting mainly of an archaic form of Ionic, with some Aeolic forms, a few from Arcadocypriot, and a written form influenced by Attic.”
I’m not sure if this is a plausible explanation as I don’t have much experience using LLMs.
I do believe the students keep coming up with weird (correct) facts, and that this can be scary for a teacher who is stuck at a search bar.
isn’t the same as
Four distinct languages had an influence on the development of this fifth language.