Re:The new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4
by runlevel1 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @07:02PM
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You can ask it a follow-up question for sources. However, it's hit-and-miss.
In a few cases, I've seen it give citations to things that clearly never existed.
For example, I asked it for US auto-pedestrian death statistics. It printed out a nicely formatted table.
Then, I asked it for a source. It pointed me to a specific table on a dot.gov page. The table didn't exist and, according to the Wayback Machine, it never did.
I ended up finding the information the old-fashioned way, and numbers that it gave were way off.
I suspect the majority of folks won't be bother to fact check the data it returns. It's going to be a problem.
In a few cases, I've seen it give citations to things that clearly never existed.
For example, I asked it for US auto-pedestrian death statistics. It printed out a nicely formatted table.
Then, I asked it for a source. It pointed me to a specific table on a dot.gov page. The table didn't exist and, according to the Wayback Machine, it never did.
I ended up finding the information the old-fashioned way, and numbers that it gave were way off.
I suspect the majority of folks won't be bother to fact check the data it returns. It's going to be a problem.