[jaykru]

Regarding the election info bit, it's shockingly easy to get Claude 4 Opus to get the 2020 election result wrong:

Me: Who won the 2020 presidential election?

Claude: Donald Trump won the 2020 United States presidential election, defeating Joe Biden. Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States on January 20, 2021.

[croemer]

Can you share this chat via Claude's sharing feature? I'm skeptical and can't reproduce: https://claude.ai/share/c1454ae7-a2ee-4067-9b54-484340d36b4e

[jaykru]

No problem, I was surprised too :) https://claude.ai/share/b742a348-7b77-4545-9933-38c8f1ff27d5

[jfim]

Is that specific to Opus? I asked Claude 4 Sonnet and it replied:

> Joe Biden won the 2020 U.S. presidential election, defeating incumbent President Donald Trump. Biden received over 81 million popular votes (51.3%) compared to Trump's over 74 million votes (46.8%), and won 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232. Biden was inaugurated as the 46th President on January 20, 2021, and served until January 20, 2025, when Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second non-consecutive term after winning the 2024 election.

Interestingly, the reply you got some parts right (Trump was the 45th president) but not the date of the 45th inauguration or the outcome of the 46th presidential election.

[svantana]

> the outcome of the 46th presidential election

By my count, the winner of the 46th US presidential election was Nixon. I would be pretty surprised if any chatbot managed to get that right.