The new Bing will happily give you citations for a pile of nonsense

Re:The new Bing will happily give you citations for a pile o... by kenjackson on Thursday February 16, 2023 @03:41PM (#34825711)

I'd hope so. If not then you probably shouldn't be in charge of delivering a summary.

I used ChatGPT to give me a list of test areas for a certain type of scenario. And it actually pointed out one that I had inadvertently missed. Now if it said something off the rails I would've known that too.

I've probably had 100 conversations with ChatGPT and I can only recall one blatent lie that it told, which I think was P != NP. Which maybe wasn't a lie, but it didn't have sufficient evidence to make that claim.

I've actually so far gotten more accurate information from ChatGPT than I did in Wikipedia's earlier days -- where I discovered that Matt Damon dropped out of Harvard because he was too stupid to make it there.

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Re:The new Bing will happily give you citations for a pile o... by mrtranscendence on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:10PM (#34826229)

What's a blatant lie, really? ChatGPT has routinely told me about APIs and books that don't exist. And just the other day it told me that paper sticks to my hand because the roughness of my skin creates suction, which I'm almost certain is wrong (I believe it's due to weak chemical bonding, but who knows).

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Re:The new Bing will happily give you citations for a pile o... by JohnFen on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:35PM (#34826681)

I know I'm being pedantic here, but a "lie" is a deliberate thing. It requires intent to deceive. LLMs have no intent, and therefore they can't lie.

They can certainly be wrong, though.

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Re:The new Bing will happily give you citations for a pile o... by dvt on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:21PM (#34826437)

Here's ChatGPT being wrong about me lol[1]. First, it confuses me with another person (also wrote a Meteor book), straight up telling me that I'm the one that's confused. It also makes up a book which doesn't exist. Um, ok. Then, it tells me I'm based in Romania, which I am not. I was born there, but I'm based in Los Angeles (every one of my bios has this info).

[1] https://imgur.com/a/kaYyRqW

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Re:The new Bing will happily give you citations for a pile o... by kenjackson on Thursday February 16, 2023 @05:24PM (#34827377)

Where does it say that you're the one who is confused?

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Re:The new Bing will happily give you citations for a pile o... by kodah on Thursday February 16, 2023 @06:43PM (#34828421)

Third prompt

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Re:The new Bing will happily give you citations for a pile o... by kenjackson on Thursday February 16, 2023 @07:36PM (#34828975)

Oh, the "not David..." part I assume. I thought it was just wrong -- not saying you were confused. I think sometimes we pull in too much "human intention" into AI chatbots.

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Re:The new Bing will happily give you citations for a pile o... by kodah on Thursday February 16, 2023 @07:59PM (#34829223)

I'm not the person that posted the prompt, I just read it and easily identified what they were referring to.

The fact that you don't, or have managed to pass that as anthropomorphizing is curious. I'll have to think about that, but on its face seems strange alongside your comment about if someone can't find a legitimate use case for AI that they shouldn't be a person who summarizes it.

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