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Amanda Cooper lost the election. It was a very close contest, only 31 votes once preferences were distributed. But Bart Mellish did win. Google knows this, all the top results show Bart Mellish's official pages, social media, and news/encyclopaedia articles about him.

I can only assume its AI crawler saw the first preference votes and a reasoning model decided that must mean Amanda Cooper won. Because no actual written source could have reported that.

I tried the search again a few minutes later and got the correct result.

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[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oof. Lumo wrong too, in a different way. There's no federal electorate of Aspley. The suburb of Aspley is in Lilley and Petrie.

[โ€“] Ilandar@lemmy.today 0 points 1 week ago

I guess it can make sense if you interpret those lines as referring to the federal electorate which contains the suburb of Aspley, as opposed to a federal electorate called Aspley. The answer was fine so we'd have never known about that possible hallucination if I hadn't checked the reasoning output!

Bart Mellish is the current Member for Aspley in the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He represents the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has held this position since 2017. His electorate office is located at Shop 8A, 46 Gayford Street, Aspley QLD 4034.