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yaosio t1_jduzcus wrote

It can also return hallucinated results from a real source. I've had Bing Chat fabricate paragraphs from real papers. The sidebar can see pages and documents, and even when in the PDF for the paper it will still make things up.

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ypxkap t1_jdxwirl wrote

the bing chat thing is interesting because it can’t seem to tell when it can’t see the whole page, eg if you ask it “what’s the last line of this webpage” you’ll get some line x words in (usually ~1100 words for me but it’s been awhile since i checked). if you then send text from after the “last sentence”, it will act like it’s been looking at it the whole time, but as far as i can tell it has no capacity to notice the text otherwise. i asked it to summarize a chat log txt file i had loaded into edge and it included in the summary that there was an advertisement for an iphone 14 and also that “user threatened to harm the AI”, neither of which were present in the text file. that gives me the impression that it’s seeing something completely different from what edge is displaying that also includes instructions over how to respond in some scenarios including being threatened?

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