Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
by hammeiam on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @05:14PM
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You can actually ask ChatGPT to cite its sources. Anecdotally when I tried, it provided me with a valid url to a census.gov site that contained the answer to my question. That doesn't make it better than google, but it does mean that some verification is possible.
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Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
by masukomi on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @06:05PM
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it will, very frequently, make up citations with real looking but completely bogus urls.
it is NOT a research tool. It is a creative text generation tool. It is not programmed to provide accurate data. It's programmed to provide accurate sounding text.
Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
by O_H_E on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @01:50AM
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Actually just today I asked if for the density of silicon nitrite and to cite a source. It cave a citation that seemed correct (reference book on materials) but with completely made up authors.