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This is terrifying: a marketer pinged me for quote permission — common for a journalist. Only I didn’t recognize the text as something I’d ever said. Pumping it into Google returned nothing.I asked where he got it: ChatGPT. AI fabricated a quote and attributed it to me. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/FbkKoDNwXH— Chris Paukert (@CPAutoScribe) May 4, 2023

This is going to wreck society even more.

Please, for the love of Marx, do not take ChatGPT at its word on anything. It has no intelligence. No ability to sort the truth from fiction. It is just a very advanced chat bot that knows how to string words together in a sentence and paragraph.

DO NOT BELIEVE IT. IT DOES NOT CITE SOURCES.

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I feel like my HS English/Science teacher begging kids to not use Wikipedia, right now.

But even Wikipedia is better than ChatGPT because. Wikipedia. Cites. Sources.

  • supermangoman [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Honestly, we're already awash in capitalist disinformation. I really don't see anything "game changing" with GPT. Assuming Wikipedia is accurate is just as dangerous.

      • supermangoman [he/him, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Sources that it disingenuously misquotes to frame its desired narrative, like on its article about the Holodomor. Honestly I think that's worse. At least ChatGPT has the message pasted on its UI that says "guys this might be totes inaccurate." If only Wikimedia was so thoughtful.

        ChatGPT doesn’t even know what the word “accurate” means outside of a grammatical and statistical context.

        Depends. If you ask it to check its previous output for errors it will find them, some of the time. If you give it access to sources within its "context window" it's able to assess accuracy much better - it just can't replace a database all on its own.