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Re:Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted? by calebm on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @12:16AM (#47670693)
This is pretty hilarious - when I asked ChatGPT to "summarize this article: https://archive.ph/hOYMn", it said it's about Jesus ("The article traces the development of early Christian Latin hymns, especially focusing on how themes about the Virgin Mary and Christ evolved from the 4th to later centuries..." (https://chatgpt.com/share/69d48476-9bf4-8327-8c19-709865a547...)
Re:Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted? by sph on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @03:16AM (#47671724)
Sharing what an LLM has to say about a thing is like sharing what you dreamt of last night — no one really cares.
Re:Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted? by autonomousErwin on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @07:03AM (#47673324)
unless you dreamt how to debug that problem no-one else can solve
Re:Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted? by sph on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @07:51AM (#47673767)
It works better if you said it came to you under the influence of heavy drugs
Re:Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted? by flux3125 on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @05:27AM (#47672627)
Interesting. If you look at the sources it cited, there are a few links about "Sacred Songs and Solos" (likely from related/side content on the page), my guess is it didn't read the main article and instead anchored on those and hallucinated
Re:Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted? by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @08:24AM (#47674183)
I wouldn't be surprised if the owner of that site has AI scraping protections enabled.
Re:Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted? by thesquandered on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @09:25AM (#47675035)
Why even have GPT summarize it? Just RTFA.
Re:Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted? by calebm on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @12:23PM (#47677708)
I like to consume content in a breadth-first way. Title -> Summary -> Maybe read it.