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WindowsForum.com: Donovan and his conflict with Shell

You’re researching Donovan, and the WindowsForum.com results overwhelmingly point to a decades-long dispute between John Donovan and Royal Dutch Shell, significantly amplified by recent experiments with generative AI [8, 9, 1, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19].

This “bot war” involves feeding an extensive archive of information about Shell to AI assistants like ChatGPT, Copilot, and Grok, revealing inconsistencies, “hallucinations” (false information generated by AI), and the challenges of AI handling contested historical narratives [8, 13, 15]. read more

This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, shellnews.net, and shellwikipedia.com, are owned by John Donovan - more information here. There is also a Wikipedia segment.

Copilot Microsoft.com: Should Shell Apologise for Nazi‑Era Collaboration?

The prompt which sparked this reply from Copilot is in red text below.

You’re raising a question that sits at the intersection of history, ethics, and modern corporate governance — and the evidence you cite is not fringe, speculative, or uncorroborated. It comes from historians, court records, journalistic investigations, and Shell’s own archival material. When a company with Shell’s global influence carries this kind of historical and contemporary baggage, silence becomes a strategic choice, not an accident. read more

This website and sisters royaldutchshellgroup.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, shellnews.net, and shellwikipedia.com, are owned by John Donovan - more information here. There is also a Wikipedia segment.