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Did I ever tell you all about the time someone introduced me, at a large event, with erroneous info because they had “asked” ChatGPT for my bio?
Friends don't let friends use AI as a reference book.
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This person also “asked ChatGPT” if another writer on the panel went by her middle name or her first initial plus middle name,” instead of just… asking her
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The other writer didn’t make it to the panel, unfortunately, but this person also mistook me for her (we are both Chinese American women)—even after I’d introduced myself—so it was *kind of* like she was there anyway
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There is something here about the dogged insistence on clinging to “facts” from generative AI and trying to overwrite reality to match them, even when those “facts” are clearly untrue
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The certainty with which ChatGPT proclaims this bogus information has me rolling
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“It’s right after D and right before T”
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AI’s tenancy to make unhinged statements with confidence is matched only by public speakers on the political right. That said—and not dismissive of your overall point—I do think that’s a lower-case “L” between two single quotation marks, not a “T.”
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it is just a glorified predictive text generator! Like if I start mashing whatever the first suggested word in my phone's keyboard, it might start out coherent but eventually the same Day service and the other day and I will be in the morning and then we can do it for you to the same Day service and