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[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 102 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

A human would likely ask the professor who is Frankie Hawkes.. later in the post they reveal Hawkes is a dog. GPT just hallucinate something up to match the criteria.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

There are certainly people with that name.

[–] BatmanAoD@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

...whose published work on the essay's subject you can cite?

[–] Guilherme@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think of AI regurgitating content from the Facebook page of a normie - like it was an essay.

Evaluation of Weekend Minecraft-Driven Beer Eating and Hamburgher Drinking under the Limitations of Simpsology - Pages 3.1416 to 999011010

[–] BatmanAoD@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you mean that you think a student not using an AI might do that by accident? Otherwise I'm not sure how it's relevant that there might be a real person with that name.

[–] Guilherme@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

No, of course not. I was talking about a student using an AI that fails at realizing there's nothing academically relevant that relates to his name, so instead of acknowledging the failure or omitting such detail in its answer, it stubbornly uses whichever relates to that name even if out-of-context.

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