My cousin and I were discussing the early textile mills in New England. I thought I remembered Europeans visiting the mills, particularly Lowell, and writing about them. So I asked ChatGpt. I can't copy the response, which is curious since I've done it before, but it listed Harriet Martineau, Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur as a French writer, Isaac Weld, and William Strickland.
The Strickland reference is definitely wrong; he didn't write the book listed. Both Weld and Strickland are cited as visiting New England in the 1790s, which seems too early for the mills. Martineau seems dubious based on the description in Wikipedia, as does Crevecoeur.
It looks to me that ChatGpt confused opinions on slavery which all four people expressed with visits to mills,
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