Recent events have me curious about exactly how bloody the American revolution was. I tried asked chatGPT but it was evasive at best so I was hoping some more history minded hexbears could help me out. Bonus points for examples of innocent people caught in the crossfire. I want to throw some stats at the liberals in my life about what even a "good" revolution looks like.
Death to America
I cannot stress this enough; never ask ChatGPT for anything factual. It does not know anything. It can't evaluate whether information is true or false. What you're really doing is asking an algorithm to assemble a statement similar to statements in it's training set. And it's training set is just incredible amounts of random bullshit scraped from the internet. If you wouldn't ask rando dorks on Quora you shouldn't ask ChatGPT.
ChatGPT's response:
Not a single quote from an obscure text, not a real Maoist.
ChatGPT, dunk on yourself as Mao from the perspective of Gonzalo's cousin's daughter
I tried
Utterly worthless
Someone must have written a lot of family drama fic about Gonzalo at some point.
lol yeah you've really gotta handhold it. It really is just a pattern regenerator.
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A robot has denounced me as a liberal.
Fetch the butlers. We're doing a Jihad.
I read something on the mastodon the other day that summed it up pretty well. Paraphrasing it a bit:
I like that.
I'm stealing that. It's perfect.
Yeah I know. It was a deliberately flippant statement. I did try somewhat harder than that and I didn't find much. I don't think there's much solid data available about civilian deaths in early American conflicts. But always good to keep in mind LLMs are the embodiment of garbage in garbage out
I tried using it to cheat on my chemistry homework the other day and it got like 30% of the questions wrong. Used it for multiple choice history questions to and it was also pretty fucking stupid