A selection of information from the biography of the famous writer Oles Gonchar appeared on the Instagram page of “New Channel”, which turned out to be a fake and has already been deleted. The public administration accuses ChatGPT of forgery. After admitting the fake, the channel published a new post on Instagram, in which it accused ChatGPT of providing false information.

“Interesting” information begins directly from the birth of the writer. It was claimed that Gonchar was born in the village of Sosnytsia, Chernihiv region. Attentive users noted that the writer was born in the Dnipro region, in a village that later became part of the city of Dnipro. Oleksandr Dovzhenko was born in Sosnytsia.

It was also claimed that Oles Honchar was taken to Germany for forced labor, then somehow got captured by the Americans, where he learned English and became fond of reading literature. The front-line soldier Gonchar was indeed with the Germans (in captivity), but there are no works, and even less Americans, in his biography.

Until 1990, when Gonchar joined the People’s Movement, he was a member of the CPSU and a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. These facts excluded the human rights activity attributed to him – Honchar could not lead the Helsinki group. Also, he was not a professor of the Department of Art History of Kyiv University, but he was a member of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Instagram user Oleksiy Yekymenko was the first to draw attention to the fake, who first published a refutation.

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Source: New Voice