Re:Using ChatGPT as a Co-Founder
by cmeacham98 on Monday December 05, 2022 @10:29AM
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> Understand, though where exactly does ChatGPT claim to be a source of factual information?
It doesn't right now, but if you scroll up, you'll see the idea at the beginning of this thread is to turn it into a source of information.
The difference between ChatGPT and Wikipedia for this purpose is that:
1. Wikipedia is wrong wayyyyyyyy less often than ChatGPT
2. Wikipedia has sources linked at the bottom of the page you can go check, while ChatGPT does not
Wikipedia on the other hand does clearly state its intent to maintain reliability of its content:
- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_and_fact-checking
- https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia
Beyond that, in my opinion, while human dialogue might hedge confidence, disclose conflicts of interest, etc — to me, assumed the exchange is via text-based chat — there are much more efficient and effective ways to express that information than adding non-actionable text like that.