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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/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (39 children)

If scientists made AI, then it wouldn't be an issue for AI to say "I don't know".

But capitalists are making it, and the last thing you want is it to tell an investor "I don't know". So you tell it to make up bullshit instead, and hope the investor believes it.

It's a terrible fucking way to go about things, but this is America...

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (7 children)

It's got nothing to do with capitalism. It's fundamentally a matter of people using it for things it's not actually good at, because ultimately it's just statistics. The words generated are based on a probability distribution derived from its (huge) training dataset. It has no understanding or knowledge. It's mimicry.

It's why it's incredibly stupid to try using it for the things people are trying to use it for, like as a source of information. It's a model of language, yet people act like it has actual insight or understanding.

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