Washington, June 28 -- Acclaimed Canadian author Margaret Atwood has shared a blunt assessment of artificial intelligence, calling it "garbage in, garbage out" while recounting the only time she has ever used an AI model.

Speaking during a career 'Q and A' at the inaugural Babell Literary and Cultural Festival in Porto, Portugal, Atwood reflected on her first and only encounter with Anthropic's Claude AI.

As per Deadline, the celebrated writer, who was in Portugal primarily to discuss her memoir Book of Lives, said she turned to the chatbot not for writing assistance but to uncover a spoiler from the British detective series Father Brown.

"Claude gave me the wrong answer, or it lied. Of course, it didn't know it was lying because it's ...