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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 week ago

One thing everyone should do before asking a serious question to AI is to ask a question that you know is false just to get a reminder that what you are seeing may sound plausible it may absolutely be false.

Example:

I told ChatGPT that I was researching old railway lines on the Roslagsbanan network and that I wanted more information about the stations on the Åkersberga to Rimbo line.

The response I got was polite and friendly and even gave me a description of each station.

Too bad it made up half of them along with the line itself, and kept the lie going until I confronted it.

Do tests like that to see how easy it is for AI to invent the truth.