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1. myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 01:57:50 UTC myrmepropagandist

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   More serious:

   Just because chatGPT answers questions doesn't mean that it knows anything.

   I'm not talking about "it might make a mistake" I'm talking about ... the way it constructs answers isn't based on knowing facts or any logical framework.

   The only thing chatGPT cares about is that answers "sound like" they are correct and appropriate in context.

   chatGPT is not an oracle, it's not even a search engine, it's not a wikipedia even... it's worse than all these. It's a verbiage engine.

   • myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 01:57:51 UTC myrmepropagandist

     "That's the last straw, Computer." I said. My computer had long known this day would come and was much more nimble that I'd anticipated when I lunged at her with the hot poker from the fire.

     "It wasn't even me!" She wailed.
     "It was someone like you!"
     "But shouldn't you go after the lawmakers?"
     "I can't get away with skewering them!"

     https://www.popsci.com/technology/iowa-chatgpt-book-ban/

     Wonderskeptic repeated this.