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Re:A man who didn’t invent Flamin’ Hot Cheetos by NiceAndWarm on Monday April 17, 2023 @06:01AM (#35598712)
Universal hyperintelligence ChatGPT disagrees with this article, saying: "The credit for inventing Flamin' Hot Cheetos goes to Richard Montañez. He was a former Frito-Lay janitor who came up with the idea for the spicy snack in the early 1990s. Montañez developed the recipe and pitched the idea to Frito-Lay executives, who eventually gave the product the green light. Flamin' Hot Cheetos went on to become a huge success and are now one of the company's most popular snacks."
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Re:A man who didn’t invent Flamin’ Hot Cheetos by justrealist on Monday April 17, 2023 @06:41AM (#35598969)
This is sort of interesting, because normally people want GPT to suppress fringe views (ex, the vast body of evidence and literature is pro-vaccine, and they don't want it to promote low-evidence anti-vaccine views). But in this case, the fringe story is, by consensus on HN, the correct one despite the mindshare.

How do you generalize this principle?

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Re:A man who didn’t invent Flamin’ Hot Cheetos by bazoom42 on Monday April 17, 2023 @07:47AM (#35599377)
> How do you generalize this principle?

Look at evidence rather than at how many people belive something?

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Re:A man who didn’t invent Flamin’ Hot Cheetos by justrealist on Monday April 17, 2023 @08:46AM (#35599860)
People don't do this.
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Re:A man who didn’t invent Flamin’ Hot Cheetos by paleotrope on Monday April 17, 2023 @09:27AM (#35600330)
Neither does GPT
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Re:A man who didn’t invent Flamin’ Hot Cheetos by ddj231 on Monday April 17, 2023 @09:47AM (#35600646)
I guess the question is whether GPT is supposed to be an emulation of personhood or simply a software tool. Ex. I don’t think we’d want a software tool that lies, steals or cheats despite the fact that people do this
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Re:A man who didn’t invent Flamin’ Hot Cheetos by froggertoaster on Monday April 17, 2023 @01:21PM (#35603724)
Dunno why you're being downvoted - folks this is very clearly satire.
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Re:A man who didn’t invent Flamin’ Hot Cheetos by boomboomsubban on Monday April 17, 2023 @02:06PM (#35604294)
"Look at ChatGPT be wrong" isn't great satire.
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