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schrod t1_j69gp5e wrote

Reply to comment by GuidotheGreater in Why not use chat gpt to spot obvious fake news? by Irate_Librarian1503

I thought it does search the internet? How else could it work??

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BoxOfDemons t1_j6a6ucp wrote

It doesn't search the internet. The information it uses comes from internet resources, but it was all downloaded in the past. It doesn't access the internet itself.

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schrod t1_j6a8cv2 wrote

Surely they will figure out how to access the internet and bring it up to date? This could be an amazing tool to help with disinformation, hopefully?

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BoxOfDemons t1_j6a8qyz wrote

Maybe one day, but that seems rather difficult. The AI isn't meant to determine what's true or false, it's just a language network. Having the data downloaded means they can fix any issues with their dataset. Put it on the internet and it will probably start spreading misinformation as well.

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rishabmeh3 t1_j6biukd wrote

GPT3 / ChatGPT may seem smart from the outside, but it is simply a large language model learning patterns in data. Using something like this for figuring out disinformation would be a rather bad idea because of all the biases it would introduce. You instead want a model specifically for the task of misinformation with the biases reduced as much as possible, and there are already thousands of research papers on this out there -- its a really hard machine learning problem.

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Thibaut_HoreI t1_j6c7utt wrote

Even then, it ‘hallucinates’ a reality all its own, very much like an image creating AI’s may create a picture that does not resemble reality. If you ask it to write your bio it may, for instance, confidently tell you you died in 2017.

If anything, it will teach us that eloquence does not equate veracity.

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swiss023 t1_j6bweyx wrote

It’s not so much an issue of figuring out how to connect it to the internet, in fact this ChatGPT network available to the public was intentionally designed this way. The model itself and its NLP abilities still need to be improved more before it could accomplish what you’re imagining

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Writerro t1_j69yh58 wrote

I think that it have data from the Internet, but before 2021. The data from the internet was loaded once into the chatGPT (or it was scanned by chatGPT once) and since that, it does not get any new data (thats my understanding)

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schrod t1_j6a8m8t wrote

Hopefully they will figure out how to make it current and allow real time searches.

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Sentsuizan t1_j6bmeqo wrote

It specifically says it does not access the internet on the splash page anytime you try to use it

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