A student turned in a paper that cited The Puritan Moment: The Influence of Protestant Thought on Early American Political Culture (Oxford University Press, 1998). Worldcat.org cannot find it in any library worldwide; books.google.com has not heard of it; a general Google search does not find it. There is a similarly titled book: William Hunt, The Puritan Moment: The Coming of Revolution in an English County (Oxford University Press, 1983).
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A Discussion of AI Hallucinations
"It's mostly fractions of a lot of small wells that have been going for decades. A pain to keep up with.
"Last year, I started feeding all the well-operator statements into ChatGPT and having it generate reports off of them.
"It does a great job accurately pulling the information from different companies with different reports in different formats, and putting them all together into one overall accurate report.
"Frustratingly, it sometimes changes the names of the wells from the name the operators use, to names of random Biblical characters."