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Re:Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claim... by insanitybit on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @12:17PM (#35963976)
ChatGPT can cite physical textbooks though
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Re:Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claim... by hammyhavoc on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @12:25PM (#35964115)
It can also give me quotes from Martians, but that doesn't mean Martians or what they or the average Venusian had to say on a topic true.
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Re:Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claim... by adjav on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @12:21PM (#35964042)
It can certainly make up things that look like citations. It definitely cannot produce a series of valid inline citations for specific quotes, rephrasings, or statistics.
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Re:Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claim... by rjmunro on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @12:30PM (#35964189)
It sometimes can if it has those books in it's training set. But it won't tell you it doesn't know, it will hallucinate a citation that doesn't exist.
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Re:Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claim... by insanitybit on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @01:19PM (#35964905)
> But it won't tell you it doesn't know, it will hallucinate a citation that doesn't exist.

Maybe but I've had ChatGPT tell me it doesn't know many things.

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Re:Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claim... by gzer0 on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @12:34PM (#35964248)
GPT-4 with browsing-mode enabled (beta) does present citations to real sources, with clickable links.
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Re:Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claim... by insanitybit on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @01:17PM (#35964876)
Why do you think it can't do that?
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