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ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it (noyb.eu)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Stop asking a language model for accurate information and problem solved. ChatGPT is not supposed to be a knowledge bank, that's purely incidental for the amount of training data.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Stop asking a language model for accurate information and problem solved

Hey chatgpt, when did jol's wife get pregnant and by whom?

/s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Unless they used that bitche's only fans in the training data, it will definitely not know that.

[–] lightnegative 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't need to know the real answer to produce a confident sounding answer

[–] NeoNachtwaechter 3 points 6 months ago

And if that answer contains Elon Musk, the world is going to believe it no matter what.