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Re:A college student created an app that can tell whether AI... by roywiggins on Monday January 09, 2023 @10:23PM (#34320125)
ChatGPT will usually just confidently hallucinate references that sound like they might exist, but don't.
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Re:A college student created an app that can tell whether AI... by rsfern on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @04:52AM (#34322525)
For queries in my field (materials science), chatGPT actually seems pretty good about citing real sources, often one of the canonical sources for the topic

An acquaintance who works in the NLP space says this is done in post processing, where GPT probably hallucinates a reference but they run a web query or something to try to fix it up.

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