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r2k-in-the-vortex t1_j69f9g0 wrote

How? GPT is a language model, not a truth / fiction model, it can't tell if something is factually true or not.

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Mike2220 t1_j6ajx00 wrote

ChatGPT itself frequently lies while posing it's answers as 100% confidently true

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ChainmailleAddict t1_j6awjev wrote

Someone asked it some questions about Kenshi and ChatGPT insisted that the technophobic Holy Nation had power armour. RAGE.

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MINIMAN10001 t1_j6cexcs wrote

Reminds me, I have tendency to put in a specific requirement like "No branching" and it'll be like I used ternary! so I ask "what is ternary" It's a branching statement. oh ok. So I have to also include no ternary!

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chasonreddit t1_j6a37ey wrote

Very true. And even if asked and it gives a cogent answer, it is just using the material it is trained on. Remember the twitter chatbot AI that turned very racist? It's all in the training data.

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Alistair_TheAlvarian t1_j6a6xnh wrote

The average Twitter user chatbot that got turned into a suicidally depressed holocaust denying neonazi?

Ahh 4chan, why must it ruin things so often.

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Alx941126 t1_j6abx0y wrote

honestly I feel that more than ruining them, they're doing us a favor, as no AI will replace human jobs until it's robust enough to handle that.

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missanthropocenex t1_j6by5ai wrote

Boy people just can’t wait to outsource critical thinking to AI can’t they? Listen you have an awesome computer called your BRAIN. It’s really good at helping determine what is and isn’t real and be discerning on deciding about what is being put in front of you being real.

The second you think AI is some infallible, unbiased voice you’ve lost.

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ub3rh4x0rz t1_j6c7lei wrote

When people say they want to outsource X to ChatGPT, there's usually an aspect of wishing to subvert the power X experts exert. The corollary is also true.

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Memfy t1_j6dh2cq wrote

>It’s really good at helping determine what is and isn’t real and be discerning on deciding about what is being put in front of you being real.

It's really not. If you have little to no knowledge about a topic you're asking it, how are you going to discern that it's not spitting out crap? Sure you might be able to easily distinguish some complete garbage, but little errors that still invalidate the whole thing can be a much harder thing to do.

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r2k-in-the-vortex t1_j6cempp wrote

Looking at how much utter garbage people believe, I'm thinking the awesomeness of that brain is greatly overestimated. There is much need to outsource thinking, because we are not very good at it.

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Spiderbanana t1_j6btdqq wrote

Saw an hilarious one today (in French) where someone asked GPT the difference between cow eggs and chicken eggs.

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explodingtuna t1_j6a5tm5 wrote

Perhaps training it to detect sensationalized word choices and writing styles, instead?

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